Running Scanner on my WHS2011 platform. One day the scanner identified a drive as having a bad sector. Scanner would never seem to be able to pass the sector in trouble (constantly trying to read?). The drive would then begin to drop and reattach every 30 seconds or so. I pulled the drive in question and tested it in a win7 box that also has scanner installed and did not encountered any problems. The drive reported clean. Ran the MFG diagnostic programs and the drive reported clean. WHS still reported a drive had a critical error - even though the drive was no longer installed in the box. Reinstalled back into the WHS 2011 machine, and the drive dropping problem soon began again.
Upgraded Scanner to latest beta {v2.5.0.341 } to see if that would handle the drive any differently - it did not, drive was constantly dropping. Thought I would need to replace the drive. As a last resort, I installed a drive cage to facilitate hot swaps and utilized new cables to the controller for all drives. While I tried to match the drives to the previously used controller ports - apparently I didn't. When I rebooted all drives were recognized and functioning, but scanner reported that they had never been scanned - I lost my history. I still had an WHS critical error message that one drive had a bad sector. (How could it know if the drives had never been scanned). Strange that the scanner program did not match the prior drive history with the current drive installation, instead thinking them to be drives it had never seen before.
Scanner finally finished scanning all drives and reported that all were at 100% (3 green check marks on each drive). So perhaps my bad sector and drive dropping was the result of a bad cable or controller port.
But even after the scan has completed, WHS is still reporting a drive has a bad sector. I have rerun the analysis and it still shows a drive has a bad sector.
I note the add-in "Home Server Smart 2013" has an option to delete stale drive information for drives that are no longer mounted in the system. Wondering if there should be such an opion on Drive Scanner.
Is there something in the registry I should manually delete to see if that will eliminate my bad sector error warning message?
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Running Scanner on my WHS2011 platform. One day the scanner identified a drive as having a bad sector. Scanner would never seem to be able to pass the sector in trouble (constantly trying to read?). The drive would then begin to drop and reattach every 30 seconds or so. I pulled the drive in question and tested it in a win7 box that also has scanner installed and did not encountered any problems. The drive reported clean. Ran the MFG diagnostic programs and the drive reported clean. WHS still reported a drive had a critical error - even though the drive was no longer installed in the box. Reinstalled back into the WHS 2011 machine, and the drive dropping problem soon began again.
Upgraded Scanner to latest beta {v2.5.0.341 } to see if that would handle the drive any differently - it did not, drive was constantly dropping. Thought I would need to replace the drive. As a last resort, I installed a drive cage to facilitate hot swaps and utilized new cables to the controller for all drives. While I tried to match the drives to the previously used controller ports - apparently I didn't. When I rebooted all drives were recognized and functioning, but scanner reported that they had never been scanned - I lost my history. I still had an WHS critical error message that one drive had a bad sector. (How could it know if the drives had never been scanned). Strange that the scanner program did not match the prior drive history with the current drive installation, instead thinking them to be drives it had never seen before.
Scanner finally finished scanning all drives and reported that all were at 100% (3 green check marks on each drive). So perhaps my bad sector and drive dropping was the result of a bad cable or controller port.
But even after the scan has completed, WHS is still reporting a drive has a bad sector. I have rerun the analysis and it still shows a drive has a bad sector.
I note the add-in "Home Server Smart 2013" has an option to delete stale drive information for drives that are no longer mounted in the system. Wondering if there should be such an opion on Drive Scanner.
Is there something in the registry I should manually delete to see if that will eliminate my bad sector error warning message?
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