TomG

Hi, I had the same question a while ago. Perhaps this answer will help:

For what it's worth, I managed to find a solution to my problem. It was a problem in Windows that somehow the automount of drives was set to disabled. Trying to find a solution for a non-DrivePool related problem I manually executed a command to enable the automount of drives. As a test I removed the driveletters from my drives with solely Pooldata on them. After a reboot the drives still show up in DrivePool. What I did: 1) open an elevated Command Prompt (cmd) 2) type diskpart 3) type automount enable 4) reboot

Hello Christopher, Thank you for your reply. Is it correct that, after a new installation, DrivePool recognizes a complete pool of multiple hard drives solely by the (hidden) Poolpart folder? I didn't even had to create a new pool or add hard drives after the installation. Why I'm asking: I'm wondering if I completely erased everything (every setting) from the old installation with an un-install and some manual deleting of leftover folders. Perhaps that something in the settings went rogue, but remained after a new installation and therefor I'm having this problem, even after a new installation.

2 days ago I noticed that my DrivePool was (almost) empty. After opening DrivePool it stated all except 1 drive were missing. I have 6 drives in my pool, one with a driveletter assigned to it, the other 5 without. The one with a driveletter is used as a "download-disk" and I need to access folders on this drive. The rest of the drives are 100% pooldata and I don't need to access them individual. This way "This PC" stays clean without too many drives. All the drives without a driveletter were missing in drivepool. After adding a driveletter to them and removing them from the drivepool they were back and the pool was complete. Every time I remove a driveletter from a datadisk it will disappear in DrivePool after a reboot. When assigning a driveletter to the disk and removing the drive from the pool, it reappears. I already tried the Reset all Settings function, but DrivePool would hang. I also tried to remove DrivePool and re-install the programm, but here I got a notice saying that the service can't be stopped. After I delete the folder-shares on the DrivePool I was able to uninstall DrivePool. After a new installation DrivePool recognized the complete pool without having to re-add the drives. Although, after removing a driveletter from a datadisk and a reboot, the original problem resurfaced... I checked all the disks and partitions on it, they all seem to be fine. chkdsk won't find any problems. I checked all the cables on the drives and the mainboard. I'm running out of ideas to try. Yes I can live with driveletters assigned to my datadisks, but it worked fine until 2 days ago. I just want to find out what happened. Does anyone recognize this problem and how did you fix it?

I just tested both ways and both work like a charm! I'm getting reading / writing speeds up to 200MB/s The temporarily solution was off course easy peasy, I should've figured that one out myself the second one is now permanently stored in the config file. To other readers: read the instructions in the wiki carefully, don't forget to rename the filename (delete default in the filename) otherwise it doesn't work.

Hello Christopher, Thank you for your quick reply! I will try both the temporarily and the permanently settings and I will let you know if there's any change in duplication speed. The filesize won't be the problem. It's all mkv's with several GB in size and now and then a single text file.

Hello, After a second hard drive crash, I decided to duplicate some folders in the pool to prevent data loss from specific folders. During the duplication the performance indicator in DrivePool isn't showing any activity (read / write speeds) in the pool, although it is duplicating. When I open Stablebit scanner it shows activity on two drives, one for reading, one for writing. Like I said, it is duplicating, this isn't the problem. What I noticed is that the duplication speed is around 45 MB/s and I think this is quite slow. When performing file copy in for example Total Commander the disks are working on a speed between 160-200 MB/s I found another thread in this forum about duplication speed from November 2013 where Christopher wrote that this isn't typical behavior. Unfortunately there wasn't a clear solution to this behavior, that's why I'm posting a new topic. Edit: I already uploaded a logfile as described here