Hey guys,
I had a WHS 2011 system running with FlexRAID (Snapshot+Pool). I recently had some drives start to go, so I preemptively traded them out for 3TB WD Reds. I got everything back up and running, and then decided I wanted to migrate to Server 2012 Essentials (instead of reinstalling WHS 2011 in a while due to some issues I was having and just wanted to clean install it). BUT, I ran into a few issues that I'm hoping you guys know about.
I broke my RAID1 (thus I still have my WHS2011 install on the disconnected mirror SSD) and installed WS2012E. After all the drivers for my AOC-SASLP-MV8, all my drives appear in Disk Management. The issue is that the 3TB drives are showing up as two separate partitions: one 2048GB "Healthy (GPT Protective Partition)" and one 746.52GB Unallocated partition. These were initialized with GPT as a single 3TB partition on WHS2011 and were detecting fine. I connected one of the drives to through an external dock to my laptop (over USB) and it says it wants to initialize the disk (either on GPT or MBR).
I'm not really sure what is going on here. Same hardware, just a different OS. The whole drive detects, it just isn't as it was before and I can't see any of the data. I'm obviously hesitant to wipe the drives and format as a 3TB GPT partition again as I'll lose all the data I saved from the dying drives.
Any idea WTH is going on here? I've never seen this happen before, but then again this is my first time dealing with 3TB drives.
I had a WHS 2011 system running with FlexRAID (Snapshot+Pool). I recently had some drives start to go, so I preemptively traded them out for 3TB WD Reds. I got everything back up and running, and then decided I wanted to migrate to Server 2012 Essentials (instead of reinstalling WHS 2011 in a while due to some issues I was having and just wanted to clean install it). BUT, I ran into a few issues that I'm hoping you guys know about.
I broke my RAID1 (thus I still have my WHS2011 install on the disconnected mirror SSD) and installed WS2012E. After all the drivers for my AOC-SASLP-MV8, all my drives appear in Disk Management. The issue is that the 3TB drives are showing up as two separate partitions: one 2048GB "Healthy (GPT Protective Partition)" and one 746.52GB Unallocated partition. These were initialized with GPT as a single 3TB partition on WHS2011 and were detecting fine. I connected one of the drives to through an external dock to my laptop (over USB) and it says it wants to initialize the disk (either on GPT or MBR).
I'm not really sure what is going on here. Same hardware, just a different OS. The whole drive detects, it just isn't as it was before and I can't see any of the data. I'm obviously hesitant to wipe the drives and format as a 3TB GPT partition again as I'll lose all the data I saved from the dying drives.
Any idea WTH is going on here? I've never seen this happen before, but then again this is my first time dealing with 3TB drives.