Newbi to DrivePool, just started my 30 day trial. Currently running Storage Spaces on Windows 8.1 but considering other options. Installed DP and built a pool of 3 USB HDDs. Transfered 50GB of test files on and off pool, everything worked fine.
Deleted all the files in the pool but discovered there was 38GB of duplicated data still remaining. Could not understand how any duplicates could be taking up space if all files in the pool had been deleted. Tried to find the files on two of the drives showing file space used. Could not figure out how to delete the files within DP. Decided to reformat those two drives to reclaim that space. Everything seemed to be working fine and DP recognized the reformatted drives after remeasure.
Rebooted the computer and now DP no longer sees these drives in the pool and also does not list them for add to pool. Windows explorer, Scanner, etc... all see these two drives. Working fine in every other program except for DP. Thinking that formatting the drives while a member of DP caused this problem. No hidden metadata or folders on either of the two reformatted drives that I can see. The one USB HDD that is still seen in the DP list does have the DP folder.
Questions: 1) When I reformatted the HDDs, while members in DP, did I fubar the setup and cause this problem? 2) How do I reset these drives to get DP to see them again so I can add them back to the pool.
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Newbi to DrivePool, just started my 30 day trial. Currently running Storage Spaces on Windows 8.1 but considering other options. Installed DP and built a pool of 3 USB HDDs. Transfered 50GB of test files on and off pool, everything worked fine.
Deleted all the files in the pool but discovered there was 38GB of duplicated data still remaining. Could not understand how any duplicates could be taking up space if all files in the pool had been deleted. Tried to find the files on two of the drives showing file space used. Could not figure out how to delete the files within DP. Decided to reformat those two drives to reclaim that space. Everything seemed to be working fine and DP recognized the reformatted drives after remeasure.
Rebooted the computer and now DP no longer sees these drives in the pool and also does not list them for add to pool. Windows explorer, Scanner, etc... all see these two drives. Working fine in every other program except for DP. Thinking that formatting the drives while a member of DP caused this problem. No hidden metadata or folders on either of the two reformatted drives that I can see. The one USB HDD that is still seen in the DP list does have the DP folder.
Questions: 1) When I reformatted the HDDs, while members in DP, did I fubar the setup and cause this problem? 2) How do I reset these drives to get DP to see them again so I can add them back to the pool.
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