Re-appearing drives

[kasssaccordian]

I am having an issue with a failed SSD. Drive is failing or failed, the drive has been physically disconnected from the PC, the drive has been removed from the pool multiple times; however it keeps reappearing along with all of it's data. How to I keep this drive gone for good?

I have 8 HDDs plus this ghost SSD in the Pool with my main C:/ separated out. I have my files duplicated but only so that there are 2 copies.

Currently DrivePool states that it is stuck Duplicating at 7.9% and has been there for the past 24 hours.

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

[Shane]

A drive showing up in the pool despite being physically disconnected is bizarre and impressive!

Before calling for the Ghostbusters:

• if you haven't already tried restarting the computer, go into Windows Services and try restarting the StableBit DrivePool service
• if that didn't help, restart the computer
• if that didn't help, try:
• open a Command Prompt as an Administrator and enter
  • dpcmd refresh-all-poolparts
• if that doesn't help then try, where "p:" is the pool drive letter followed by a colon
  • dpcmd list-poolparts p:
• this should give you a list of the pool's parts by their global paths
• find the PoolPart that corresponds to your ghost disk and copy its particular "PoolPart.unique-identifying-string" name.
• enter the following but with the appropriate pool drive and PoolPart name:
  • dpcmd ignore-poolpart p: PoolPart.unique-identifying-string
• this should hopefully tag the ghost disk to be ignored by DrivePool, but it normally does require the target to exist so I don't know if it'll work!

If none of the above works... you may have to try resetting DrivePool on that machine (so if you have any custom balancing settings or placement rules you want to keep, write them down first before doing that).

[kasssaccordian]

I was able to remove the device after using the 2nd and 3rd commands.

The disk still exists in File Explorer but I get the below error when trying to access anything on the drive.


After re-reading both of our messages I believe I may have been mistaken and this is actually a secondary M.2 Drive and the one I unplugged was a sata drive missing the power cable already so not in use. I'll look to see if it is an M.2 if the issue returns as it's a pain to get to in my case if it is installed.

I appreciate your help regardless!

[Christopher (Drashna)]

If you're still experiencing the issue the refresh command may help.  Also, try rebooting the system, and see if that helps. 

If not, open a ticket at https://stablebit.com/Contact