Honestly, I am suspecting this is more of a Windows 8 thing than Drivepool thing. I am hitting a wall though and am really hoping somebody can point me in the right direction. I can not be the 1st person building a pool that has run into this.
So I am in the process of shutting down my old WHS Vers 1 Server. I have built the new server on the 8.1 Pro platform.
All new Hardware.. (i5, Gigabyte z97x-ud3h-BK motherboard, 16 GB ram. OS running on samsung 850 EVO
I have already installed a new HGST and WD Red 3TB. Both were new in the box and both showed right up. I put the drives in a pool and removed the drive letters as I am letting Scanner manage them.
I wanted to pull a couple of newer drives from the old system to put into the new system.
I have started with the first drive. I removed it from the old server according to procedure (30 hours later, it is out.)
Seems simple ...right? Here is the problem.
I can not get Windows 8, Drivepool or anything else to recognize the pulled drive on the new build.
The Drive is a 2TB WD RED. I thought maybe the drive had failed so I plugged it into my Windows 7 PC.
The PC saw the drive. I deleted the allocation, reformatted, made a simple Primary Partition on the drive in NTFS.
I assigned it a letter.
It is reading basic. The drive is behaving exactly like I think that it should on Windows 7.
On Windows 8, it is not even appearing in Device Manager. There are no alerts in Device Manager making me think something is missing. The drive is not showing up in disk management.
Of Course it is not showing up in Drivepool or Scanner/ How is it that I can see and completely utilize this drive in a Windows 7 machine and not even get it to be recognized in Windows 8.1 Pro?
I have tried different sata cables and different power connections..nothing.
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Honestly, I am suspecting this is more of a Windows 8 thing than Drivepool thing. I am hitting a wall though and am really hoping somebody can point me in the right direction. I can not be the 1st person building a pool that has run into this.
So I am in the process of shutting down my old WHS Vers 1 Server. I have built the new server on the 8.1 Pro platform.
All new Hardware.. (i5, Gigabyte z97x-ud3h-BK motherboard, 16 GB ram. OS running on samsung 850 EVO
I have already installed a new HGST and WD Red 3TB. Both were new in the box and both showed right up. I put the drives in a pool and removed the drive letters as I am letting Scanner manage them.
I wanted to pull a couple of newer drives from the old system to put into the new system.
I have started with the first drive. I removed it from the old server according to procedure (30 hours later, it is out.)
Seems simple ...right? Here is the problem.
I can not get Windows 8, Drivepool or anything else to recognize the pulled drive on the new build.
The Drive is a 2TB WD RED. I thought maybe the drive had failed so I plugged it into my Windows 7 PC.
The PC saw the drive. I deleted the allocation, reformatted, made a simple Primary Partition on the drive in NTFS.
I assigned it a letter.
It is reading basic. The drive is behaving exactly like I think that it should on Windows 7.
On Windows 8, it is not even appearing in Device Manager. There are no alerts in Device Manager making me think something is missing. The drive is not showing up in disk management.
Of Course it is not showing up in Drivepool or Scanner/ How is it that I can see and completely utilize this drive in a Windows 7 machine and not even get it to be recognized in Windows 8.1 Pro?
I have tried different sata cables and different power connections..nothing.
What am I missing here?
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