WHS v1 wont boot

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I know this is a bit long in the tooth, but I never had this issue and was wondering if someone can point me in the right direction.

I came home to my WHS v1 being non-responsive. I was planning on replacing a bad storage HDD this weekend, but it looks like the machine beat me to it. Anyhow, the machine will boot to the WHS splash screen and then reboot. Over and over and over...

I've already tried all the F8 modes, ie. safe mode, diagnostic, etc. They all do the same thing described above.

Any suggestions? Ideally, I would like to get it booting again with minimal fuss as I have imaged and stored my license keys for WHS on this particular WHS (stupid, I know). I do not have the original disks in my possession anymore.

Worse come to worse, I will build a machine and pull the disks one by one to extract the data. My only concern is that as I have data duplication turned on, I'll have multiple copies of files across multiple disks and will not know which ones may be "bad" in the bad HDD.

Any help is greatly appreciated!
 
Anyhow, the machine will boot to the WHS splash screen and then reboot. Over and over and over...
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I've already tried all the F8 modes, ie. safe mode, diagnostic, etc.
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It does sound like a program (WHS) problem rather than a computer problem but I dunno for sure.

Have you tried removing/replacing the disk you thought was going bad?

You'll probably need a copy of the WHS restore disk at some time so you might as well start looking. :)
 
Unfortunately, I didn't get the serial of the drive prior to this happening. I had disk failures before and thought I would have no problems waiting out the week.
 
I've never had a disk failure on mine but that's about the ONLY problem I haven't had. :D

You could do it the old fashioned way and disconnect disk by disk.

Start with the storage disks and go from there.

I dunno what happened to your origional disks but I suggest getting copies of all that stuff.
 
I'd try disconnecting all the data drives and just make sure it can boot into WHS. Once you can, then start adding in the data drives one at a time.
 
Tried pulling the data drives- no change. I have also obtained a set of the WHS discs- what next?
 
I think you need to do a server restore where it will look for the presence of previous WHS disks before installing. If you do a fresh install it will wipe the file tables.

Or just pull all the drives, do a full reinstall, and copy the data off each drive 1 by 1 then add them back to the storage pool (where they will be formatted).
 
I'm doing a server restore, but it's taking forever compared to what I'm used to.

I'm just going to let it sit and if it completes, I have USB HDDs at the ready to copy files off and rebuild this server from scratch.
 
Did you try booting a LiveCD to verify it's not a hardware problem. Looping reboots can be memory, power, etc.
 
I went to bed with the bar at maybe 10% and didn't get a chance to look at it this morning (had to come in to work early). I'm hoping when I get home, It'll be done and happy and I can start moving files off it.
 
I dunno if this is good or not.

Indexing takes the majority of the time for a reinstall.

I only have @ 3 TBs used on mine and the last reinstall took @ 3 hrs.

If you had a failing drive hopefully it won't become 'stuck' there.
 
Old server up and running but throws up a lot of errors on boot and also if you try to move or copy files says insufficient permissions.

New parallel server up and running as well. I'm trying to copy whole shares to the equivalent volume on the new server, but after 10 seconds reports that it cannot access those files.

Any suggestions?
 
Just pull the drives one at once....

Plonk in new server....they are just NTFS files system.... Copy everything off on to new server.
Plonk in the next drive, rinse repeat... Until you are done.

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Yeah, that's what I'm doing now.

Not looking forward to iTunes library- I had duplication turned on and it's not like I can do a quick glance and see which folder has what in that thing.
 
It was borked- saw all my drives but only reported 500GB- I had over 8TB.

Also, every DE and WHS related service was failing on startup. I started to do it and after a few failed attempts following M$ documents, I decided to just move the data manually from the drives.
 
It was borked- saw all my drives but only reported 500GB- I had over 8TB.
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Maybe your install disk didn't have the correct drivers?

AAR, I hope this move/copy does it.
 
All drivers installed. Windows sees all 8TB. WHS console however, reports ~500GB total usage and space. I had approximately 7.5TB filled of the 8TB.
 
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