I had a flash Console message saying something about drive failed on DE/shares (or similar - it was too quick for me to catch). I found Ken's hugely helpful 'How to...' about drive checking and did just that. (It took nearly all day.)
(Chkdsk 'How to...': http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/whsfaq/thread/b5372407-1f24-4eff-9092-069c4b4f0cee)
The three Chkdsk log files end with:
The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is SYS.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
...
20972825 KB total disk space.
11026028 KB in 23945 files.
7776 KB in 3328 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
131161 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
9807860 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
5243206 total allocation units on disk.
2451965 allocation units available on disk.
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The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is DATA.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
...
1932523109 KB total disk space.
684428120 KB in 211508 files.
63600 KB in 3914 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
376361 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
1247655028 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
483130777 total allocation units on disk.
311913757 allocation units available on disk.
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The type of the file system is NTFS.
Volume label is DATA.
WARNING! F parameter not specified.
Running CHKDSK in read-only mode.
...
488375968 KB total disk space.
320532136 KB in 51106 files.
14416 KB in 1113 indexes.
0 KB in bad sectors.
133180 KB in use by the system.
65536 KB occupied by the log file.
167696236 KB available on disk.
4096 bytes in each allocation unit.
122093992 total allocation units on disk.
41924059 allocation units available on disk.
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I had expected four logs as I have four drives:
Samsung 1.5TB
Hitachi1TB
Hitachi 500MB
ST (can't remember!) 2TB (main, system drive)
Very confused. I assume that the first log is the System (20MB) partition, the second is the 2TB drive and the third is the 500MB. If this is correct, I’m also assuming the 1TB Hitachi is dodgy as it doesn’t seem to appear. (But note this is all guess work for me!)
When I got the flash message I logged into the Console but it took ages ‘calculating’ the pie chart for storage space – and seemed to have lost a chunk of free space, but it’s been a while since I checked so I can’t be sure.
I then logged onto Remote Desktop but the 1TB drive did not appear under My Computer – though it appears as ‘Healthy’ in the Console.
Am I right to remove the 1TB Hitachi in WHS Console (and then from the box, presumably). But why is the drive okay in the Console but not in Remote Desktop?
Cheers,
Chris