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How do I recover a Storage Space?

So, reading up on Windows 8, and saw "Storage Spaces".  Thought WONDERFUL, I can finally retire my old Windows Home Server and swap drives in and out as needed!  So glad the feature was brought back!

 

Purchased Windows 8, and began the process of migrating data from my server to my desktop.

 

Server was finally cleaned off, all files were neatly organized on my desktop in a new Storage Space.  I removed the last drive connected to my home server, ( a 3TB external USB) and plugged it into my desktop, and added it to my Storage Space.  At the conclusion of which, I noticed in the file explorer, that the Storage space was still "full".  Thinking it was just a glitch, I happily started to copy some files over to the newly expanded storage space.  About 10 minutes later, I got a disk full warning.  I cancelled the transfer, and rebooted my computer, thinking that might help the storage space " balance out" the newly added 3TB of space into the mix.  Upon returning to windows, The drive that the files were on is shown as unformatted and RAW in the disk manager??!!

 

The Storage Spaces window tells me the storage pool is fine, but I can't view the drive.... HELP!

 

There are 4 drives, it was set up as a "simple" no resiliency volume (I just wanted to clear the server before adding backups)

 

Spaces sees the drives, sees that they are full, but I can't do anything or access the files?!?!

 

If ANYONE can help, please, I'd hate to think I just lost all my data!

https://dl.dropbox.com/u/10106566/spaces.jpg

 

A few questions:

 

  • One of your drives is showing as "retired". Did you remove this drive using the control panel?
  • Your space is shown as 25TB (thinly provisioned). Did you start with a 25TB space when you created it, or did you start with a smaller number and extended it to 25TB?

 

 

 

 

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I started it at 20TB, increased it to 25TB AFTER I lost the ability to read the space in a vain attempt to "reinitialize" the space and get access.

The "retired" also occurred after the fact, when I attempted to remove, and reinstall the new drive.

My main concern is the prompt to format the space if I try to open the drive in Windows Explorer, and the Disk Manager snap-in shows an unformatted RAW 25TB hard drive.

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Try to use R-Studio 6.1 I had great success with it. Also in a no-resilience situation.
The downside is that you need another drive(s) to copy all the data to. 

I had this problem in early August first.
So I bought 2 new hard drives to copy all the data to.
And I decided to give storage spaces 1 more try.

A few days ago. Something similar happened again.
Thursday evening I shutdown the computer normally.
On Friday morning, all my storage spaces are shown as "Unrecognized Configuration".

So I need to get some more drives to copy the data to. (since the new ones was added to my second try at storage spaces)

(!!!! I couldn't recover any data so far!!!)

So after you recovered your files. My advice is to stay away from Storage Spaces. Until Microsoft talks more about it and how to repair Storage Spaces.

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Last updated December 12, 2022 Views 2,989 Applies to: