[romanx]

I've just reinstalled WHS, pre-reinstall I had my drives as M:\ and T:\ for storage. Now that I've reinstalled they've added themselves to the storage pool which I don't want.

I can go into Disk Management, give the drives a drive letter and remove the ones that say "C:\fs\4" and C:\fs\H", and my drives appear. But if I need to reboot they go back to the \fs\ path which I want to avoid.

Is it possible to disable the Drive Extender Migrator Service? (I think this is the one that is managing it), or is it a different one?

[bodogbodog]

You're using WHS (as opposed to WHS 2011) right?
Why not just remove those two physical drives from the storate pool (using the WHS Console) and then add them as non pool drives
You need to manage the disks from the Server Storage tab in the WHS Console - don't try and do it from File Explorer on the WHS
Why would you want to disable DE Migrator - you can - but you're then going to stop WHS Drive Management functionality from working

This post has been edited by bodogbodog: 02 July 2011 - 09:07 AM

[romanx]

WHS 2003

If you remove the drives from the drive pool it wants to shift the data about, I don't have anymore space available in my WHS to do so, or sata ports for that matter, or even justify the cost for another 2tb drive.

I can change the drive letter and path on the WHS, but they won't stay if I have to reboot. I prefer to manage the drives myself, so if I'm doing that then I don't really need the migrator do i?

[pantonious]

I hold absolutely no responsibility for your data if you try this...Do it at your own risk!!!

Shutdown your WHS and unplug the drive you don't want in the storage pool, boot it back up and your WHS Console will comlplain there is a drive missing. Remove the drive from the pool. Shutdown and reconnect the drive.

The drive should not be added to the pool as its been 'removed' and the data should still be on it as it was 'removed' from the pool when the drive was disconnected.

I have no idea what will happen to your storage pool. This could really mess things up.
I've never done it, just an idea that came to me when i read your post.


I do have one question...Why????? seems like a lot of trouble to setup separate shares when you could do that with XP, Vista, W7, Linux. The main reason for WHS is the storage pool. I know its what sold me on it!

[romanx]

pantonious, on 03 July 2011 - 10:56 PM, said:

I hold absolutely no responsibility for your data if you try this...Do it at your own risk!!!

Shutdown your WHS and unplug the drive you don't want in the storage pool, boot it back up and your WHS Console will comlplain there is a drive missing. Remove the drive from the pool. Shutdown and reconnect the drive.

The drive should not be added to the pool as its been 'removed' and the data should still be on it as it was 'removed' from the pool when the drive was disconnected.

I have no idea what will happen to your storage pool. This could really mess things up.
I've never done it, just an idea that came to me when i read your post.


I do have one question...Why????? seems like a lot of trouble to setup separate shares when you could do that with XP, Vista, W7, Linux. The main reason for WHS is the storage pool. I know its what sold me on it!

The method you've given me is kinda how I set up the Home Server in the first place. I installed WHS onto a 2tb drive with 2 partitions, then when all ready, I plugged the drives in.

I prefer access to the drives via a drive letter. Because I have my tv rips going into the larger partition on the first 2TB HDD, once I'm finished I move them to the storage drive. I spend my days working in SBS/Windows 2003/2008 servers, I prefer raw access to a drive for control over files, moving, and to do it with ease.

I might take my drives out, add a spare in that doesn't have any valuable data on it and see what happens when I disconnect and reconnect.