I have a Mirrored Dynamic disk on my Windows 2003 Server. How do you monitor the health of the volume?
Is there a way to have the server send an email when there is an issue with the volume?
Is there a way to have the server run S.M.A.R.T.…
I have a virtualized Windows 2003 Server machine with one basic disk (boot drive) and three Dynamic disks. The machine is running in an VMWare ESXi server.
I had to remove the three dynamic disks from the VM, and now I want to re-attach them. The…
I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 and converted physical disks to dynamic disks and combined them to a spanned volume. Yesterday, one disk started throwing S.M.A.R.T Errors, so I decided to get a new disk to replace it.
Now, I installed it to my…
Can striped volumes in Windows Server 2008 R2 be extended?
I have searched here on ServerFault and also on Google for an answer to this, and I can't seem to find an answer. Even the commercial tools I have looked at cannot do it.
I recently upgraded to windows 2012 server and am curious about the difference between storage spaces and simply creating a dynamic volume from the three drives. Basically, I have 3 hard drives I'd like to pool together to act as one. I already use…
I'm attempting to set up dynamic boot partition mirroring on GUID partition table (GPT) disks as part of making a bootable mirror of a Windows system drive.
I am following Microsoft's KB951985 but I get stuck on the step which uses robocopy to copy…
I have a Hyper-V server running on WS2012. I have a Windows 7 running as a dynamic disk. I delete files and more from within to attempt to save disk space and reduce the size. However, the size does not shrink even after I turn it off and run a…
How much risk is involved in converting a basic disk into a dynamic disk in Windows Server 2003 R1 and R2? I just expanded my vDisk in VMWare but since the disk is basic it will not let me expand the volume in Windows. Is there potential for data…
We've been using Windows Dynamic Disks for our customers system discs as a software RAID1 solution (i.e. we install the system on one disk, and mirror it after installation using Dynamic Disks). I've run into a problem that suggests that my…
How can I attempt to read bad sectors from the end of the disk, using ddrescue?
I have dynamic volumes and the LDR is kept at the end of the disk, unlike MBR.
I remember that I've tried --reverse but it changed the direction from the last tried…
I had 2 drives in my Server 2003 PDC
1 of the drives went bad and was replaced. Now i show the working drive, the new drive and a missing disk. I am trying to delete the missing disk but am not able to because it contains a volume that was part of…
Our surveillance server running Windows2008r2 (standard), had a software RAID5 of five 1TB HDs. Ran well for 2 years, till one drive died last week. Decided to "upgrade" and increase room to five newer, larger drives, 3TB each. Each drive is…
OK, this might be a stupid question but I'm new to this. Dealing with Hyper-V server 2008. So let's say I got a dyamic VHD which has a 70gb max when i inspect it in Hyper-V, and then the C: drive of that VHD hits its limit. Does space automatically…
I have a bit of an odd setup. Basically, originally in the server was an older lone 160G harddrive. We've decided to upgrade it to a RAID-1 mirrored 2 disk setup against two new 500G harddrives. It'd save a lot of time if we didn't have to reinstall…
We are trying to figure out the best way to do a P2V on one of our main file servers (windows server 2003). Currently the server is physical with an MD1000 hard drive array attached through scsi, we have about 2.5TB of data, on the data volume of…
