Following unreliability of a SATA PCI-e expansion card on an D510MO Atom system, I am moving my installation over to a (hopefully) more robust system. My data is on 4 2TB drives with OS on a separate 500GB drive partition C and with D as the Feeder Partition.
I am feeling reasonably confident about how to transfer over the licences and reinstate the pool, using the utility tool if required, but I'm not sure about the following and would welcome some input.
Because of the idiosyncratic way the SATA card was detected on my Atom system and because when I first installed Drivepool I wasn't sure how to nominate a particular drive letter for the Pool, I ended up with the following (see attachment) with Disk order and letters out of order with Disk Names and with Pool as "F"
When I move my disks over to the new OS install, before reinstating Drivepool do I need to tweak the drive letters and order so they exactly match the original configuration and leave F vacant or can I order them as follows and somehow get the Drivepool letter to P
C: WHS (OS)
D: Feeder
E: Data_1
F: Data_2
G: Data_3
H: Data_4
P: Drivepool
I DO NOT want to do anything which risks my data or is a major undertaking. I lived with "Drivepool F" perfectly happily when I stopped noticing it! But I'm particularly worried in case I get the data disks in a configuration that Drivepool can't immediately identify and is therfore unable to get all my data showing as the original pool.
Thanking you in advance for any help you may pass my way.
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ChipMonk
Following unreliability of a SATA PCI-e expansion card on an D510MO Atom system, I am moving my installation over to a (hopefully) more robust system. My data is on 4 2TB drives with OS on a separate 500GB drive partition C and with D as the Feeder Partition.
I am feeling reasonably confident about how to transfer over the licences and reinstate the pool, using the utility tool if required, but I'm not sure about the following and would welcome some input.
Because of the idiosyncratic way the SATA card was detected on my Atom system and because when I first installed Drivepool I wasn't sure how to nominate a particular drive letter for the Pool, I ended up with the following (see attachment) with Disk order and letters out of order with Disk Names and with Pool as "F"
When I move my disks over to the new OS install, before reinstating Drivepool do I need to tweak the drive letters and order so they exactly match the original configuration and leave F vacant or can I order them as follows and somehow get the Drivepool letter to P
C: WHS (OS)
D: Feeder
E: Data_1
F: Data_2
G: Data_3
H: Data_4
P: Drivepool
I DO NOT want to do anything which risks my data or is a major undertaking. I lived with "Drivepool F" perfectly happily when I stopped noticing it! But I'm particularly worried in case I get the data disks in a configuration that Drivepool can't immediately identify and is therfore unable to get all my data showing as the original pool.
Thanking you in advance for any help you may pass my way.
Thanks - Chip
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