[SOLVED] Problem importing foreign disks in Windows 11 ? (solved)

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cats_five

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I've rejigged my PC, and the two disks I had as mirrors appeared initially as foreign disks.

In Disk Management, I right-clicked them and selected "Import Foreign Disks".

Details of the disk appeared - disk number, Dynamic and the site plus 'online.

And on the right, a driver letter appeared along with the size, NTFS and 'Re-synchronising'

They have now been Re-synchronising for many, many hours, and it looks to me like nothing is going on - in Task manager the MMC has some memory allocated but is using no CPU, no disk & no network.

I do have the important stuff elsewhere, but I can I resolve this situation without losing what's on the disks? If I try Actions->Refresh, or Actions->Rescan I get an error 'The RPS server is unavailable'. That's a bit of a puzzle - the PC is having no problems connecting to the Internet, and I can't see that this process is anything to do with client/server stuff.

Maybe I should have gritted my teeth and used disk part. 🙁

PS Action->All Tasks->Properties shows the right sort of used space. At least all the photos are on a NAS, and documents, spreadsheets etc. are not on that HDD.
 
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Have installed HD Tune and can't see anything amiss. I didn't run the benchmark, info is info, in health a couple of lines were highlighted with yellow but health status was OK, and I ran a quick error scan which was all green.

I also ran Crucial Storage Executive. It lists both disks in the mirror as in good health, ran SMART for each of them and nothing leapt out at me.

I've also found I can happily view it in File Explorer.

I'm coming to the conclusion it's a glitch in Disk Management.
 
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Yet another sign-up I'd rather not have to make. A shame I can't just paste it into the forum. And having tried to sign up, I get 'Email sign-up is not possible in your region. Register using a third-party service'.

I've found another way of getting the SMART data, which is what you seem to be after.

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Summary
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        Storage
            1863GB Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102 (SATA (SSD))    31 °C
            1863GB Seagate ST2000DM008-2FR102 (SATA (SSD))    34 °C
...
        Hard drives
                ST2000DM008-2FR102 (SSD)
                    Serial Number    ZK20278F
                                        0A
                                            Attribute name    Spin Retry Count
                                            Real value    0
                                            Current    100
                                            Worst    100
                                            Threshold    97
                                            Raw Value    0000000000
                                            Status    Good
                                        B8
                                            Attribute name    End-to-End error / IOEDC
                                            Real value    0
                                            Current    100
                                            Worst    100
                                            Threshold    99
                                            Raw Value    0000000000
                                            Status    Good

                ST2000DM008-2FR102 (SSD)
                    Serial Number    ZK20203E
                                        0A
                                            Attribute name    Spin Retry Count
                                            Real value    0
                                            Current    100
                                            Worst    100
                                            Threshold    97
                                            Raw Value    0000000000
                                            Status    Good
                                        B8
                                            Attribute name    End-to-End error / IOEDC
                                            Real value    0
                                            Current    100
                                            Worst    100
                                            Threshold    99
                                            Raw Value    0000000000
                                            Status    Good
 
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cats_five said:
Have installed HD Tune and can't see anything amiss. I didn't run the benchmark, info is info, in health a couple of lines were highlighted with yellow but health status was OK, and I ran a quick error scan which was all green.

I also ran Crucial Storage Executive. It lists both disks in the mirror as in good health, ran SMART for each of them and nothing leapt out at me.

I've also found I can happily view it in File Explorer.

I'm coming to the conclusion it's a glitch in Disk Management.
Click to expand...

This turns out to be the correct answer - it was a glitch in Disk Management. But I cannot for the life of me see where to mark this as 'best answer' and get the thread closed.
 
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