Jebberino84

Hello! I am a newbie with a lot of issues and would like some help. I noticed my plex and other services (Windows VMs) were no longer running on my Unraid server. I've also had issues rebooting so I initially thought my Flash drive was going bad, but I was able to plug it into a windows computer and run a repair which allowed me to boot unraid again. I was able to get my shares back up and running, and my VM's seem to be ok, but now my dockers (MacInABox, Plex, Jellyfin, etc.) are all listed as orphaned images. I've tried just adding these back with the "add container" button, but it fails every time. I've also noticed that my apps tab won't work (I get an error that says I could try fixing my DNS, which made me restart my router and this server, but to no avail) with an "Download of AppFeed failed" message. I also have had an error message of my Nvidia driver update failing. I know something catastrophic is happening, I'm just hoping someone can help me figure out what's going on before I loose a lot more data. I'm about to attempt deleting and re-creating my docker.img but if anyone has any other suggestions or can help me diagnose what's causing all of these issues, I'd really appreciate it. Thanks in advance for any help! Unconfirmed 355806.crdownload

I tell ya, it's mistakes like these that humble you. I was doing all this while researching and I think the real problem was that I just wasn't pressing any keys at the beginning to boot from a CD. Thanks again SimonF for letting me know I'm a dummy sometimes! I hope you all have a good day!

Thank you, SimonF! I changed the "OS Install CDRom Bus:" to SATA and then made sure to press a key to boot from CD and it worked! I'm now setting up and installing Windows!

Here is also a view of the settings I'm using to try to make a VM. I still can't figure out why this won't boot into windows setup.

I just realized that I never posted back on here. For anyone else who might read this, I wasn't able to recover the old information. I instead started over and created new VMs after replacing the Cache drive and creating a chache pool with 2 SSDs. Let this be a lesson to anyone out there with only 1 SSD and no redundancy! Try to get a second SSD so if one fails, you still keep all your data!

I am having issues setting up a new Windows 10 VM. I am currently using spaceinvader's youtube guide and would like to make a windows 10 VM that I can use for a blue iris and surveillance server. I would like to passthough an unassigned disk (8TB WD purple) for this VM to sit on and use. The Spaceinvader video below seems to cover this but it's not working for me. I'm just getting a shell prompt when I try to create the VM. This happens whether I try to use my disk as the Vdisk location, or if I leave it in default settings and just create the normal Vdisk. I've created Windows 10 VMs before, but for some reason, this time it's not working. I'm just getting the screen below: I'm using the MediaCreationTool22H2 from Microsoft website to create the ISO, and I've used other steps to create the VM based off this video: I've looked though the forums and have seen that others have had issues and received the same shell prompt, but they were attempting to install a 32bit version of the windows ISO. I've re-downloaded the ISO and I've also tried using an older windows installation ISO which I still had in my UnRaid ISO files from creating older VMs, but everything seems to get me to the shell prompt and then I'm stuck. If any more information is needed from me, please feel free to ask and I will get it asap. Thanks in advance for any help anyone can provide!

I've got a new-to-me SAS PCI-e card that should be arriving on Friday since I've used up all my SATA ports on my motherboard already. I'll also be stopping by our storage during the week to grab the laptop. I just want to say, I read posts on these forums all the time, and I see you answering posts constantly! You're a great guy whose helped many people with these items in the past and I appreciate your help today! I hope you have a great holiday season, Jorge! As I mentioned before, I'll likely report back by this weekend after I have time to work on this. Thanks again for your help!

Thank you for this information. Unfortunately, the replacement disks I purchased to make the new cache pool are 500GB each. The failing cache drive is a 1TB drive I had from a friend's build when I built this PC. I will have to wait to clone this cache drive until I can find another spare 1TB drive for cloning. I will try to do this in a couple days if possible and report back because I think I have one in an old Laptop I no longer use that is in storage, but it will take me a couple days to find the time to get it. In the meantime, for my own curiosity, and so anyone else reading this might also know, if cloning does not work, or even if it leaves bad sectors or some missing data, will I be able to create a new cache drive pool from scratch and how would this affect my current setup of unriad? This is really my main question I didn't see answered anywhere else in any forums. I may be miss-understanding how all of this works of course, but if I am unable to recover data from the cache drive, will the data that is stored in the "system" file, the "appdata" file, and/or the "domains" file prevent me from being able to access my VM? I believe I can set the plex part of my server back up with no issues, but is there a way for me to create a new VM which would access the data, or "minecraft world" that my niece and nephew built in it? The data that the VM uses to boot and to run would be in the cache drive, but the actual data for the minecraft world should be somewhere on my main array, right? However the only way I've ever accessed that data was through the VM and I don't believe there is a "share" setup in unraid when you create a VM with the data it contains. Is there a way for me to find this information on the unraid array and move it to a new VM without the VM data on the cache disk?

I'm sure my options are pretty slim, but just wondering what someone might be able to help me with here. I'm kind of a noob when it comes to this stuff. I've had the server for a while, but I set it up with my own research and always planned on upgrading the cache drive for redundancy at a later date. Well that mentality bit me in the butt as now I have a failing cache drive and I'm not sure what can be done to recover my VM which no longer works. I figured out the drive was failing when I attempted to open a Windows 10 VM and it went straight into automatic repair. I'm still unable to get into the VM as it runs into errors if I try to do a startup repair, or System restore, or an image recovery. This is what led me on my path to figure out what was wrong and when I noticed that my cache drive said it had an error with a “thumbs down” under the smart column in the dashboard. I’ve attached logs below if anyone can use that to tell me what exactly went wrong as I’m curious, but my real issue is that now I need to replace the failing cache disk with a new cache pool, but I’m wondering if this will be possible, and how much data I’m going to lose? I currently run a plex server and file share out of this server, along with occasionally creating VMs to play around with. I have one windows 10 VM that remains on this server which has a main purpose of hosting Minecraft worlds for my niece and nephew and some others. I’ve purchased 2 new SSD’s to replace this old one that’s failing, and create a cache pool so this issue doesn’t happen again. I’ve read plenty of forums describing how to replace cache drives, and how to create cache pools, so I think I have the process down, but my issue is that after I’ve shut down the dockers and VMs, and after I’ve set the shares to “yes” for my appdata, domains, and system files; when I try to move this data from my cache disk to my array, it will not work. The mover just stops by itself after a few minutes. I believe this is because the cache SSD drive is failing. If I can’t move these files over, will I still be able to change the cache drive/pool without loosing everything? Is there a way for me to do this and still maintain access to the VM and plex data and my server settings, and anything else? I imagine that most of the ~55GB of data that is currently on my cache drive is just plex data that I still have on other computer’s on my network, so even if it's lost on the cache drive, I would likely be able to get that back if the drive is lost, but how do I rebuild the dockers and settings that I had before? Is this all stuff that’s only saved in the files that are currently on the failing cache drive that won’t copy over? All posts I've read seem to mention a process for how to create cache pools or replace the cache drive, but none of them seem to mention what to do if the information doesn't copy over. This is really my main question. If I'm unable to copy this information to the array, is there anything I can do? What will this affect if I still try to replace when it won't copy over? I hope someone can help me out with this, and if the answer is that I’m totally screwed I get it, but I’m just looking to see if I’m over thinking this, and there might be another way to rebuild everything, and/or that settings might be saved somewhere else. Feel free to let me know how much trouble I’m in and laugh at my mistake! For those that might be reading this and learning about the benefits of a cache drive and have put off buying another SSD to create a redundant cache pool, hopefully this post can help you too! jebsnas-diagnostics-20221217-0827.zip