WHS Error

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drgnfang

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Getting the following error on my WHS:
Delayed Write Failed "Windows was unable to save all the data for the file C:\fs\11\$Mft. The data has been lost. This error may be caused by a failure of your computer hardware or network connection. Please try to save this file elsewhere."

It's popping up about every 2 to 3 minutes...

Dead drive, something else? Any ideas?
 
Bad hard drive controller drivers (Onboard or add-on IDE/SATA card). Had that error when Win XP was released and drivers were still crap.
 
Seems to be one of the external USB drives. Dropped out of the drive pool. Pulled it and ran scan disk on it (from the desktop). Found some bad crap, gonna put it back it and try to remove it and save the data.
 
does the external have a fan? I've run into this issue with HDDs that get to hot and then just crap. I no longer buy pre-made externals as all of them have passive cooling and when doing large writes (and sometimes large reads), it just craps out on me.
 
It does, but it was still very hot. I don't think it could handle the Seagate 750g (one of the hottest drives I've used).

So here is where I am. I've pulled the data off the drive onto my local machine.

How do I clean up the WHS so that it isn't complaining about the drive missing? I tried doing a normal drive removal but the system crapped out before it could finish. I'm not sure if it's the drive (doesn't seem to be, since I was able to pull the data onto my local machine), or the USB interface, or something else... It only seems to be this drive which is causing a problem (c:\fs\11)... Can I do a "remove" on the missing drive and then just copy the data back over?
 
drgnfang said:
It does, but it was still very hot. I don't think it could handle the Seagate 750g (one of the hottest drives I've used).

So here is where I am. I've pulled the data off the drive onto my local machine.

How do I clean up the WHS so that it isn't complaining about the drive missing? I tried doing a normal drive removal but the system crapped out before it could finish. I'm not sure if it's the drive (doesn't seem to be, since I was able to pull the data onto my local machine), or the USB interface, or something else... It only seems to be this drive which is causing a problem (c:\fs\11)... Can I do a "remove" on the missing drive and then just copy the data back over?
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Remove the drive via the Server Storage tab. You can do this even if the drive isn't physically connected. WHS will scream at you that you are going to loose data, but it's ok since you have already recovered the data. After you've removed the drive and replaced it with a new one, just copy the data back. I had this problem earlier this year when a Seagate 1.5 TB drive in an external esata enclosure went bad. My MSS wouldn't boot up with the drive in the unit and I couldn't get the drive to spin up at all connected to another computer, (I could not recover the 1.2 TB of data on the drive, but I had backups of the data in another location). So I put a new drive in place, added it to the storage pool, removed the missing drive via the Sever Storage tab and copied the data back from the backup location. The MSS returned to happy state.
 
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