Mysterious File partitions

[marquis6461]

My build is a Windows Home 11 Build 26100.6584

Running drives mostly on USB3 in 2 Proboxs 8 and 4.

Was running great for many years.  Occasional hiccup. Anything rally important backed up on removeable disks.

Recently I have noticed a partition appearing Labeled COVECUBECovefsDisk_____ for each Stablebit partition I have created.

Here is what happens..

I reboot my system.  All drives are on and everything looks normal.

Long boot sequence where each light blinks and it finally comes up.  I run stablebit and see this.

COVECUBECovefsDisk_____

Close Stablebit and open Disk Management. I get 2 unregistered partitons with the same name.

I press offline to both and get Disk Management is outdated and needs to restart.

I then re-enter Stablebit and rescan after this

Not overly concerned if a few files are missing. I have Plex checking if files turn up missing.  

Several have and I can replace them.  

Just thought you should know.,,,

 

 

 

[Christopher (Drashna)]

That's very odd.  The "COVECUBECovefsDisk_____" disk is definitely the pool driver.

Though, in some cases, a lot of disks connecting at once can cause problems for Windows, and double enumerates drives.  I've seen this with the pool, but I've also seen this with normal drives (especially USB). 

That said, there is also a "controller" driver for the pool, in addition to the disk driver.  It's a slightly different name, but is pretty close.  Is that what you're seeing here? 

Also, if it's not causing any issues, you should be okay to just ignore it.   Though, you can also uninstall the extra devices from Device Manager (and this may help long term, actually). 

[marquis6461]

I do.  I go into Disk Management and Select GUID for the partition search to ensure it doesn't bite the bullet and select Offline as a selection instead of Initilize Disk.

Pools clear up and works as it should.

One other odd thing is happening is when you add a new device to the USB bus, sometimes Stablebit Pool loses itself and has to do a full measure and check.

All of the strange issues have been arrising after going to Win 11.  Don't want to point fingers because I do have some old system online.  Will be moving back to a copy of Win 10 this month instead of staying on Win 11.

That is always the problem.  Once you fix one problem, something else breaks.

[marquis6461]

I think I see what Stablebit is trying to do in Windows 11.  Don't know of any way to fix it without ruining my Virtual Drives.

When you format a new drive the system tries to stick a small partition in front and behind your primary partition.  Seems that either Stablebit or Windows 11 Home is trying to do the same.  It shows up as a 2K unformatted partitiob that can't be fixed by disk management.  If you tell it to be offline, you are fine until you reboot.

I am running 10 12TB drives in 2 Proboxs 8/4 USB 3.1 into a HP laptop.

I normally turn it all off,  Boot up the laptop and then turn on the externals after the boot cycle.  This produces a lengthy Search of the drives with checking involved but the file count is always correct.

If I just let it reboot, I get a fast restart but get that hung partition on the Virtual Drive that if I make it go away, my system runs normal.

 

Hope this helps...

[Shane]

I believe DrivePool defaults to waiting up to ten seconds between when it sees the first and last disks of a mounting pool before requiring a re-measure; if it's taking longer than that for all the disks in the Proboxes to be recognised, perhaps you could see whether increasing the override values for the CoveFs_Wait* records in "C:\ProgramData\StableBit DrivePool\Service\Settings.json" has any effect?

[marquis6461]

Will try a doubling of the Wait time to see if there is any effect.