[SOLVED] Issues with hard drives after restting and updating

[KarRuptAssassin]

Hey guys, so I just bought an RX 580 so I decided to nuke my windows 10 and start a new with a fresh windows 10 install. So, I installed the RX 580 and a 7-port USB 3.0 internal card I got, shut down the computer, unplugged my storage space drives (and color-coded the cords so I wouldn't mix them up when I plugged them back in) booted it back up into troubleshooting mode, reset windows 10, completely reinstalled it, overclocked my 580 and installed drivers, then shut it all back down, plugged the drives back in, and started it all back up once again. The storage space is there, it reads pretty much everything, but it is now SLOW AS HELL.

Drives are having connection latency issues, spanning from 0ms to 9000ms, whole folders won't load entirely, I honestly have no idea what's going on.

I ran some troubleshooting, saw one of my drives was corrupted, restarted to fix it, now the drive is showing up as fine, but I'm still having all of these issues. DISM returned nothing, chkdsk returned nothing, I'm currently running a wd data lifeguard check for the hell of it since the pool is 3 3tb wd drives in a simple pool for storage of my stupidly large steam library.

I honestly have no idea what's going on at this point, I'm thinking I should just reinstall windows 10 again and hope for the best.

Specs in case they're important:

Windows 10 update 1803
RX 580
i7-4790k
16gb ddr3-1866 memory
240gb SanDisk SSD for os
V - storage space - V
2 - Seagate 3TB Desktop HDD SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache 3.5-Inch Internal Bare Drive (ST3000DM001)
1 - WD blue 3tb 5400 RPM Class, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64 MB Cache, 3.5" - WD30EZRZ

really anything helps at this point

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

Its seeing the whole pool as a disk, which makes no sense. Device manager shows all of the drives, going into properties for every single one shows "this device is working properly"

 

[Rogue Leader]

Yikes, what happens when you right click on the uninitialized drive? Does it give you any options?

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

Restarted it some 5 times, it finally recognized the storage space again, but now i cant remove the drive thats giving me the warning lmao. Thanks windows.

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

what even is going on lmao

 

[Rogue Leader]

I don't know but if you can access the data, save what you can and bail on that mess.

One of the drives is probably failing.

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

Imusing powershell to manually retire the drive thats failing and try to repair the rest of it using an old forum post from 8.1 that seems to still be in working order. Just kinda hoping that this works in general so that I can get my 6tb in other hard drives back.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Imusing powershell to manually retire the drive thats failing and try to repair the rest of it using an old forum post from 8.1 that seems to still be in working order. Just kinda hoping that this works in general so that I can get my 6tb in other hard drives back.

Please share the link here to that post.

Like i said if I were you if the data is accessible I'd back it up and just break the array, format the drives and test each one. Ones probably dying, ditch that one.

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us...rom-pool/fd3e8be0-ef87-46f1-ad55-227ad806a9cd

Wont let me just remove the drive, its being annoying. Its already showing me that its one of the seagate drives, but trying to actually remove it just gives me an error that it cant remove the drive from the pool because "not all the data could be reallocated" Which doesnt make sense because I had the whole pool down to 3.13 tb before it restarted, and now its saying its back up to 6.92. No option to view files.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Ok are the Powershell commands working?

I'm assuming the Delete button next to the drive isn't working.

I'd think if you had another physical drive to plug in you could add to the pool maybe it could reallocate there, but thats a bit of a long shot.

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

ALSO!

Shows up in storage spaces but not in disk management lmao

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

I have an external 4tb, im gonna add that and hope for the best.

Powershell commands didnt do much of anything.

Deleting the drive doesnt work

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

Cant add the drive to the pool. Do you think removing the physical drive that's causing the errors would allow me to see the other two drives to format them? I know which physical it is that's messed up.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Cant add the drive to the pool. Do you think removing the physical drive that's causing the errors would allow me to see the other two drives to format them? I know which physical it is that's messed up.

Maybe, It depends on your whole pool data size, also it depends if that drive actually had any of the data on it.

If you try to delete the whole storage space at the top that doesn't work too right?

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

I was able to delete the pool via the top of it, and then remove the drive. I think im gonna try and recuva now that the other two drives are free

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

Attempting to scan a simple pool with the two other drives just gives me an error. Hmm.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Storage spaces makes a mess of the drives. Its probably format time. If you can access them, delete the partitions, create new ones, format, and done.

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

Yeah i managed to get the two back but i still cant recover them. Ah well, rip my games and photos.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Daily backups my friend.... next time

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

yeah thats what the 1tb will be.

Any idea of some good programs to scan the two drives for any potential issues before i start loading them up again? or just chkdsk

 

[Rogue Leader]

yeah thats what the 1tb will be.

Any idea of some good programs to scan the two drives for any potential issues before i start loading them up again? or just chkdsk

Chkdsk does the job, but use the flags /f /r /x on it

So if you're checking the D: drive the command (under an admin command prompt) would be

chkdsk D: /f /r /x

That tells it to fix any errors, locate and recover any bad sectors, and dismounts the drive before so nothing interrupts.

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

Awesome, thank you so much for your help dude.

 

[Rogue Leader]

Awesome, thank you so much for your help dude.

No problem anytime.

 

[KarRuptAssassin]

So figured id necro again just to let you in on this really weird update.

I had to go pop open my desktop to add a usb 3.0 internal card and i decided to replace the sata cord for the busted drive to see what i could get off it, right?

Launched windows, it nabbed my other two drives and added them to the pool, then proceeded to clear them of everything id be downloading over the day.

Disk management is reading the drive just fine now, im running chkdsk full on all three drives again, no idea what happened but its working again?

Windows wtf

 

[Rogue Leader]

So figured id necro again just to let you in on this really weird update.

I had to go pop open my desktop to add a usb 3.0 internal card and i decided to replace the sata cord for the busted drive to see what i could get off it, right?

Launched windows, it nabbed my other two drives and added them to the pool, then proceeded to clear them of everything id be downloading over the day.

Disk management is reading the drive just fine now, im running chkdsk full on all three drives again, no idea what happened but its working again?

Windows wtf

Bad cable?

That like never ever happens to the point of I wouldn't even suggest it as a possible problem.

 

[Colif]

problem around here is its almost always the solution you would never suggest. Could use a checklist of all the possibilities and many questions would still go, nope, been there, done that... next.

Glad you worked it out, we were both looking at software solutions since drives tested fine