Changing from WHS2011 (old version of Drivepool) to Windows 10 on same machine

[Saaiberke]

Hello,

I am an extremely satisfied user of the Stablebit's drivepool on my (old) WHS2011. As WHS2011 starts to give me problems with the launchpad and remote control after each windows client update I am thinking about migrating to Windows 10 pro on the same machine without loosing any data on my 12TB Drivepool.

How can I proceed installing Windows 10, keeping my current data and eventually update the drivepool to the newest version (I am willing to buy a new license if necessary). Which steps should I take to be sure not loosing my data?

Can someone guide me to into the right direction please?

Thank you in advance,

Nic

[Shane]

Hi Saaiberke,

You may need to re-enter your Balancing and/or File Placement settings, so I suggest taking note of them first.

If you are using your boot drive as part of a pool, you should remove the boot drive from that pool for the migration.

(Anything else on the boot drive that you want to keep should be copied to another drive.)

You should deactivate your StableBit license(s) on the WHS2011 install as a final step before replacing it, so that you can reactivate the license(s) on the Windows 10 install without having to contact StableBit to help. Note that while the DrivePool license is deactivated your pool(s) will be read-only.

I recommend powering down your system to physically disconnect your pool drives before proceeding with the OS replacement, then powering down to physically reconnect the pool drives after you have installed DrivePool on the new OS.

P.S. You should also ensure that Read Striping is disabled on your pool(s) when they come back, as there is currently a Read Striping bug that can cause the wrong data to be read from duplicated files in the pool.

[Saaiberke]

Hello Shane,

Thank you for the info. I will try it as you said

 

Nic