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You could also use a live CD to do that. Choose one that have ntfs support and you're done. (or a flash based one if you don't have a cd drive handy)
Orb,
This looks like a great option for moving files from NTFS to an UnRaid system. I downloaded "Live CD" and then booted using the iso. I had an NTFS drive and an unraid drive hooked up. I was able to mount both, but I could not copy data from the NTFS drive to the Unraid drive. I made sure to turn on read/write permissions, but that still did not allow for files to be created, or copied to the unraid drive. I am sure it is a setting in Live CD that I am missing.
Are there any tips that you can give?
Albin
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Tom,
Does the above method work for mounting an ntfs drive via usb in the current version 4.0? I recently read a post that explains a method for mounting a drive internally which mentions that ntfs drive support seems to be missing.
Thanks
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There is an easy workaround, change the time to one hour in the future, it will spin down, then change it back.
I will definitely be using this trick.
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I was pretty sure that NTFS used to be in there as a "read-only" filesystem driver, but I just looked at my current 4.0 final server. It's not in there...How were you guys mounting the NTFS file systems? When I tried to mount, I was told that ntfs was an unknown file system type. Were you using fuse (I think that's it) from SourceForge?
Cheers,
Tom, is my memory failing me?
Joe L.
Joe,
Is there an earlier version that you know has the ntfs file system. I wanted to use your proposed method for moving data to an unraid drive. I have an extra tower where I can use my additional unraid os to move the files and then move the file between two unraid systems (one unraid would have the current build, and the other would have the build you suggest that has the ntfs drive support)
Thanks
Unraid
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I just upgraded a 500gb to a 750gb and the instructions that Tom provided worked fine. I did not need to use the super.dat that I backed up and saved to my desktop.
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I started a Telnet Session and tried the following from Computer "A"
Tower login: root
Linux 2.6.20.
root@Tower:~# v /mnt/BJPics
/bin/ls: /mnt/BJPics: No such file or directory
root@Tower:~# cd /mnt/disk2/Pictures
root@Tower:/mnt/disk2/Pictures# v /mnt/BJPics
/bin/ls: /mnt/BJPics: No such file or directory
root@Tower:/mnt/disk2/Pictures# dir
#1/ 100_4524.jpg* Bo2/ beach1.bmp* show1.bmp*
100_4463.jpg* 100_4593.jpg* Bri'sPictures/ bjfiles3/ show2.bmp*
100_4514.jpg* 100_4594.jpg* banquet1.bmp* bjfilesbj2/ straw1.bmp*
100_4516.jpg* 100_4639.jpg* banquet2.bmp* bjfilesmac/ straw2.bmp*
100_4522.jpg* Bo/ be03.bmp* gy1.bmp* straw3.bmp*
Above are all the files and folders located in on disk2/pictures. As you can see BJPics is not showing up as a folder. (BJPics is located on disk2/Pictures/BJPics)
You can however see the folder created by the Mac "bjfilesmac", folder created by Computer "B" "bjfilesbj2". I did have a folder called "Bons Camera" which I renamed to "BonsCamera" (I thought that maybe the space in the name was causing issues)
I just realized I browsed to the wrong drive. BJPics is not located on disk2 it is located on disk1. With this discovery I went to computer "B" and the MAC and discovered that I had mapped drive letter "O:" to disk2 (on computer "A" I had mapped drive letter "O:" to disk1). Mapping all computers to disk1 fixed the issue. What is confusing is that disk2 is unassigned. I took it out of the server (it has not been in the server for several days). The main page is showing disk2 as "Not Installed" How is it that I can browse through the files of disk2, add folders, and view the files. when the drive is unassigned and not installed?
So it was not woodoo but a user error. Sorry for the user error post. I still would like to know more about seeing files and adding folders to a disk that is unassigned and not installed in the unraid server.
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I also attempted to create a folder on Computer B hard drive and the copy and paste the folder to the UnRaid server to see if creating the file on the unraid was the issue, but this procedure did not seem to help.
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I just mapped a network drive to my MacBook and the Mac was not able to see all the folders that have been created. I then created a folder using the mac. Computer A could not see the newly created folder, but computer B could. I then went to computer B and created a folder. The Mac could see the folder but Computer A could not. I know that XP as issues, but I did not expect the issues from the Mac.
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I won't disagree with you on the 50% woodoo of XP. I did check to make sure that hidden files are not hidden and system files are not hidden. Neither of these attempts helped.
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I have User Shares set to Don't Export. To be honest with you I have not messed with user shares yet. Should I change this seting to something else and then hit re-scan? Is there another forum that has already addressed this issue that I am dealing with?
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I am trying to view folders on my unraid from multiple xp machines. I mapped the drive and I can see all the folders and files from computer"A", but from the computer "B" I see all but one folder (the folder I could not see did have a space in the name, but then I created another folder with no spaces and I can not see that folder from computer "B" either. I would imagine there is a form that handles this, but I am struggling to find one. Can anyone point me in the right direction?
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Glad you figured it out.
Most Bios menus want to put the USB boot option as very low priority. You have to go in and manhandle it sometimes.
That is what I am finding out. It looks like for every drive I add or remove, I have to go and set the thumb drive back to the first boot device. I have not seen where I can manually over ride it and stop looking for new boot devices. I am sure it is there and I will look a little more.
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Check your boot priority. Make sure the USB is set to boot first. Personally, I have all other boot devices disables just so I'm POSITIVE that it won't try to boot off of a hard drive.
I did check the boot priority, but I will go and look at this closer......
When I disconnected the drives and restored to the default setup on the mother board, the thumb drive was showing as the first boot device (and it boots fine in this scenario), but when I hook up the drives and go into the bios setup I cannot find the thumb drive as an option to make it the first boot device.
Here are the options for "First Boot Device" with the (unformated drive/s) connected "1st FLOPPY DRIVE", Hard Drive, "ATAPI CD-ROM", and "Disabled" (notice that I did not mention a thumb drive)
Here are the options for "First Boot Device" with the (unformated drive/s) disconnected "1st FLOPPY DRIVE", "Lexar JD Lightning" , "ATAPI CD-ROM", and "Disabled"
It appears that I do not need to restore to the default Bios, but all I have to do is disconnect the hard drives and the Mother board then adds the thumb drive to the available items to set boot priority to.
Well I figured it out. I had to go to a separate menu called "Hard Drives" and move the thumb drive to the top of the list, then go to the boot priority list which this time the thumb drive now shows up as a sectable option and boots fine.
Thanks.
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Hey guys. I have a first generation unraid server. For some reason, the server will not boot today. I checked the bios and the flash drive is the selected primary boot device. Coming out of post, I get the following error message: "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device." Sounds like my Flash drive is hosed. Any ideas?
Thanks.
I am having similar issue. I just purchased unraid and I am using the P5LD2-VM Mother Board. Once everything was together (without the hard drives) it started right up. Once I hooked two brand new drives to SATA 1 and SATA 2 on the Mother board, then I got the meassage stating, "Reboot and Select proper Boot device or Insert Boot Media in selected Boot device." Once I received this message I quickly discovered that if I remvoe the newly introduced drives, and reset the bios for the Mother board to default settings and then booted up UnRaid it works fine (not a bad thumbdrive for me).
What do I need to do to have the drives hooked up and be able to boot up. Thanks for any help.
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I personally get pretty good performance with my 4 year old dual processor Athlon 1600. At least I think they're 1600 MP.
Thanks for your input. I decided I would go with TheMaster's pick:
Intel Pentium D 820 Dual Core 2.8GHz, 800MHz FSB
1GB Dual Channel Corsair XMS2 PC5400 DDR2 675 SDRAM
I am sure I will get good results.
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I have been collecting parts for an Unraid system. I have purchased the MB (P5LD2-VM). I am struggling with what processor to purchase. I was looking at TheMAster's specs http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=378.0, but was wondering what just a little more money spent on the CPU may do for my UnRaid system. Seems like the target is 2 GHz or higher. What about the Front Side Bus Speed? Would there be a drastic difference between 800 and 1066 MHz? I am looking to get the most bang for around the $150.00 range. Thanks for any input. I am willing to spend the same amount on Memory also.
Moving Data off old drives...
in General Support (V5 and Older)
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Orb,
I downloaded Slax and burned the iso to a cd. I then tried to boot to the iso but got the "blank Screen" issue that seems to be related to my on-board video card. Instead of waisting to much time on that I managed to try Slax in a different tower (different MB and different video card) and it booted fine (I booted using the StartX command). After booting I mountedthe unraid formated drive and a ntfs drive and then copied a few files from the ntfs to the unraid drive. (if anyone needs pointers on mounting drives in the slax gui, just let me know. I am sure I am not the anyone struggling as a newbie with this kind of stuff) I then powered down and placed the unraid drive back in the unraid tower and powered up unraid. I then browsed to the mapped network unraid drive and the files that I copied over from the ntfs drive to the unraid drive (with the use of slax and www.slax.org ) were present. (I downloaded SLAX Standard Edition v 5.1.8.1) So I had success with your proposed method. Thanks so much for the tip. I also noticed that when playing around with Slax I will be able to learn many of the copy, move, and other commands that will most likely be helpful with UnRaid.
Again thanks for the tip, and now I can move (consolidate) all my files off of several ntfs drives and on to my UnRaid drives at incredible speeds, and without the use the network or an xp machine.
By the way, All I did with the UnRaid machine, was to power down, pull the hard drive (not the parity drive) that I was going mount in Slax, then when I was done with the moving/copying of files from the ntfs drive to the unraid drive and had powered down slax, I then pulled the UnRaid drive from the machine that I used for booting to Slax and placed it back in the unraid machine and booted up Unraid and the files showed up. I guess I could perform a parity check, but unraid says parity is valid (I am still learning about when to check parity, so an comments on this would be great, and if anyone see issues with what I did above please comment).
One other note. The above process maybe a lot easier for others if they can use their current unraid machine to boot to slax. I would of done it this way, but I would be sure to disconnect all drives except for the drive you want to move data to, and connect the ntfs drive. If you want to have parity when moving files, then any of the above methods mentioned will not be helpful.
I know this is a long post, but I figured it may help others.
Albin