WHS messing with me again!

[Justintoxicated]

WHS is messing with me again!

So I had a hard drive start reporting problems with sectors and it tried to recover some data. Well I think the drive is actually ok but the stupid sata cable needed to be adjusted again.

Anyways when I go into WHS and try to mount the backup for the disk, when it gets to 81% windows prompts me to format the new volume. WHS then throws an error and says that it failed to mount the disk. Aparently I'm not the only person with this problem as I found here.
http://social.microsoft.com/Forums/en/whssoftware/thread/04005306-247b-4c5b-81f0-6f3b2bc43ac9

But does anyone know a solution? Im getting really tired of WHS always failing when I need it...

I also found this.

http://blog.milliesoft.co.uk/2009/09/windows-home-server-cannot-even-mount-backups/

So what do I do now? I need to get these files back! What good is WHS if I can't use it for it's sole purpose in backing up my PCs! This is very discouraging!

 

[nitrobass24]

Didnt read your links, but i think i remember there being something in the PP3 Release notes addressing this issue.

Do you have your WHS up to date?

 

[Justintoxicated]

Didnt read your links, but i think i remember there being something in the PP3 Release notes addressing this issue.

Do you have your WHS up to date?

Yes in fact, I don't think I ever had this problem before PP3 but thats probably just coincidence. I tried re-installing the connector software and that didn't help.

What a Turd WHS is... I have a plan tonight that may work. The error message leaves the user with no way to understand what is wrong. A google search will reveal that this problem is EXTREAMLY common now. The only known solution is to delete your backup and re-backup, which unfortunately defeats the purpose in having a backup to begin with.

Some people will have luck when they mount the drive for the first time from a computer that has not mounted the drive before, or an XP system. I have one at work I'm going to bring home.

My Plan is to share the entire drive on my PC I want to sync with my WHS backup with the XP machine, then mount the WHS virtual drive to the XP machine, once mounted use the XP machine to sync the files to the drive with the lost file fragments (that is shared from the PC).

On a side note: Is there any way to identify what file were corrupted using the found file fragments?

And Yes I have already searched Wegotserved forums.

http://forum.wegotserved.com/index.php?/topic/10242-cannot-molunt-backup/
The only solution seems to be to delete the backup database, which also deletes my backup. But who need 10 years worth of pictures and tax returns, and all my resumes and work related files....Just delete your backup and it will work again! TOo little to late MS!

 

[nitrobass24]

If the HDD is bad then putting the files back on there is just a temp solution.
You need a new HDD, and then i would just do a bare metal restore.