Reintegrate removed 'missing' drive?

[kaphonius]

Moved a pool of 8 drives to a new, yes Win10 machine. One of the drives was listed as missing and did not turn up in Scanner or Drive Management. Not a power or data cable issue. Connected it to the old PC externally USB to test, came up as RAW in Drive Management. At this point I'm thinking the drive is corrupt/damaged etc. So despite my belief that the pool's duplication was incomplete I tell Drivepool to remove the missing drive and add in a new replacement. Then I take the presumed 'damaged' drive and install internally on the old PC to run Scanner on it... Not only does it show up in Drive Management as 'Healthy' and NTFS, but the old Drivepool on the system informs me that seven of eight drives (the ones moved to the new PC) are missing from the pool *eyes rolling*. The drive seems fine and seems to have all it's data intact. So now the big question, is it possible to reintegrate a drive that was listed as missing and removed from Drivepool (assuming the duplication was incomplete and it has files on it that are not duplicated in the pool) -OR- must I do a folder level merging of the files just to be sure I don't loose any data?
 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

That's .... odd, and I'd check to see if the disk is having issues (in the "System" section of the Event Viewer logs).

And I would recommend checking the disk before re-adding it to the pool, just to make sure. (run a "chkdsk x: /r /scan /perf", where "x:" is the disk in question).

 

However, to "reintegrate it", enable the "Show hidden folders" option in windows, move the contents of the hidden "PoolPart.xxxxx" folder out of it and into the root of the drive. Once this is done, delete the now empty PoolPart folder.  You may want to restart the system or StableBit DrivePool Service to force a fresh (run "services.msc" to do this). 

 

Once that's done, it should show up as a disk that can be added to the existing pool (if not, try resetting the settings of DrivePool: http://wiki.covecube.com/StableBit_DrivePool_Q2299585B).

 

Once it's added to the pool with the rest of the disks, move the contents of the disk into the newly created "PoolPart.xxxyy" folder.  Remeasure the pool (pool options -> remeasure), and it should be back to "normal". 

[kaphonius]

Thanks for the quick reply. I reinstalled the drive in the new PC. Opened Drivepool before implementing your 'reintegration' steps. The drive is in the pool without any other steps. I'm guessing that might be because I physically removed it before 'removing' it from Drivepool. Now I'm wondering since the replacement drive went through re-balancing and has duplicated TBs of data while the problem drive was absent will that cause duplication issues or will Drivepool correct for the extra duplication? If not could I remove the replacement drive after the pool re-measures or would that just compound any extra duplication issues?

[Christopher (Drashna)]

Any extra duplicated data will be checked when the disk remeasures, and the subsequent duplication pass will remove any extra (unneeded) copies. So there isn't any worries here.

[kaphonius]

never mind