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I decided to run the command line utility diskpart clean all to prepare my used unRAID drive for formatting in Windows 11. Probably overkill but it definitely cleans out all remnants of the ReiserFS file system. I also ran Western Digital's 'Dashboard' program to check the health of the drive.

I'm no longer using my old unRAID server; realistically, I don't think I'd be able to sell it. It's a basic tower PC running the old v5.05 unRAID software. I built the system way back around 2010. I'd like to utilize the hard drives after removing them from the server. I plan to plug them into an external USB drive docking station and then use them to back up my Lightroom catalog and RAW photo image files. These docking stations are attached to my Windows 11 laptop. Is there anything I should do to prepare them for re-formatting for NTFS? Years ago, I used one of my former unRAID 1 TB drives after swapping it out for something larger. I installed it in one of my PCs and formatted it to NTFS. It failed a few months afterward. I was able to recover some files with special recovery software (I don't remember what I used). During this process, I discovered that Windows was having trouble with the ReiserFS partition. So I wondered if I should've done something prior to just formatting. Maybe a preclear... Someone on the r/unRAID subreddit suggested just running 'diskpart clean'. Would that be enough?

I realize this is an old thread but I have a related post/question that may add to this. I have reformatted several 1TB WD drives that were used in my Unraid server. I simply used Windows disk manager and deleted the old partitions and created a new NTFS basic partition. Then I used these drives in some Windows PCs. I did this quite awhile ago, so this was performed when I was running Windows 7. Since then, I've stopped using the old PCs (and sold off parts). I've kept the hard drives and have been using with external HD docking stations as backup storage for newer Windows 10 machines. Most of these older drives have been chugging along just fine. However, a couple were not recognized by Windows 10. If I determined they were damaged after running WD utilities, I'd disassemble the drives, remove the platters and toss the metal in my recycling bin. The remaining platters make interesting coasters. A couple of these old Unraid drives seem healthy, based on the WD utilities, but Windows 10 will not recognize them. In that case, I used DBAN to wipe the drives and then I reformatted them. Then they seemed to work fine. Recently, one of those 1TB drives which successfully was converted from ReiserFS to NTFS (without wiping) is having problems. My daughter was using it with her Macbook Air and a hard drive docking station to backup her important files. Several months ago, she switched to a Microsoft Surface Pro. The same HD with docking station worked fine with her new computer until a few days ago. It is no longer recognized by Windows 10. It is listed in Disk Managment as a healthy disk drive with a active, primary partition but there's no file system. There's no way to assign a drive letter or volume. The only option is to convert from Basic to Dynamic. I'm afraid if I do convert to Dynamic, she will lose all of her backed up files. I've used recovery software to get her files and have noticed the ReiserFS partition coming up. I'm wondering if Windows 10 has a problem with old ReiserFS drives. Has anyone else come across similar problems?

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I finally identified which computer was the master browser. After setting my unRAID server to be the "Local master" under SMB and rebooting the PC that was previously the master browser, now all the devices on the network appear in the network list on all my other PCs. I'd still like to figure out how to set my router to be the master browser, but that may not be possible with my ASUS RT-N56U router. Since my unRAID server is always on, this should be ok.

Thanks for this info. I was running into the exact problem you described. Now I am trying to figure out how to set my ASUS RT-N56U to be the local master. I can't find anything in the settings that refer to the workgroup name or any other Windows network settings. I would think they'd put this under the LAN page or Administration pages, but I don't know enough about networking to know which setting is referring to the workgroup name. Under the LAN section there's a tab for DHCP Server that has a few fields that might be applicable. Do you know if the workgroup name (in my case it is just the default "WORKGROUP") should be entered under RT-N56U's Domain Name, DNS Server, or WINS Server?

Thanks for the response. I think I found what I need in this post: http://lime-technology.com/forum/index.php?topic=20734.msg183962#msg183962 However, the author says to set your router to be the local master and uses his Netgear WNDR3700 router as an example, but I can't find any similar settings with my ASUS RT-N56U router settings. I've been searching for "ASUS RT-n56U" and "local master" but haven't been able to find any info. I did check to see if my unRAID server was set to be the local master and it is not. I tried changing it to local master, but 'MEDIA' still isn't listed on my network device list. Maybe I need to reboot my machine. Anyhow, based on his recommendation in the above post/link, it is better to set your router as the local master. Now I just need to figure how to do so with my router.

For the past few days, I haven't been able to get Windows 7 to find my unRAID server (v5.05). Whenever I use Windows Explorer to navigate to my Network it no longer displays my 'MEDIA' unRAID server in the list of network devices. All of my other connected and awake PCs are listed, but not 'MEDIA'. I can only get it to display by typing '\\MEDIA' into the address bar. How can I get my unRAID 'MEDIA' server to automatically appear in my list of network devices? This isn't really a big deal, but some applications, like Google's Photo Slideshow, which I use as a screensaver, won't allow me to select a folder unless the device shows up in the network list. All of our family photos are stored on the unRAID 'MEDIA' server, which I like to use for the slideshow. I have lots of photos, so I like to change the selection of photos every so often. I was trying to change the slideshow on our family HTPC and I can no longer select the 'MEDIA' server and the contents of its folders. I have also tried from other PCs on the network with no luck. I've tried rebooting unRAID. I've tried rebooting my router. I've tried rebooting the PC that runs the screensaver and none of these reboots have helped. The 'MEDIA' device shows up in the router's list of attached devices. This is a new problem because I almost always see 'MEDIA' in my list of network devices. Something weird has changed and it probably has more to do with Windows than unRAID. because I haven't made any changes to unRAID for a very long time (although, I am currently reading through all the instructions for upgrading to v6, which I plan to do in the very near future). Since many of the folks who frequent the lime-technology forums have lots of networking expertise, I thought I'd post this question here, hoping to find an easy solution. THANKS!!

Currently, we don't pay anything for the EPG that we get with WMC and with my equipment (SD HDHomeRun Prime) I can watch and record encrypted cable channels with every PC on my network. So, what's your point? As far as I know, WMC is the best solution for watching and recording encrypted cable TV with a PC. Eventually Microsoft will stop supporting it. I'm willing to pay $30/year for a good replacement.

I don't subscribe to any of the premium movie channels, so I probably don't have to worry about copy-once channels. I assume you need WMC for the Kodi+ServerWMC to work, right? I'm satisfied with the WMC UI, so I haven't tried Kodi. I'm trying to figure out how I can play and record encrypted channels with a nice EPG and UI, like WMC's, without WMC.

Wow, so much negativity. I'm a happy hdhomerun prime owner and would be willing to pay $30/year if this works as well as Windows Media Center. Since Microsoft disbanded their WMC team years ago, I worry that it will no longer be supported. Maybe this will be a replacement. I too would like this to work on my unRaid server. I also don't think some of you understand how this works. I have a cable TV subscription with Charter. Most of the channels are encrypted. My HDHomeRun Prime connects to my Charter cable and because it is CableCard tuner, I can view the encrypted channels without the Charter set top box. The HDHomeRun is also connected to my home network, so any PC on the network can be used to watch cable TV. Using Windows Media Center, I can view and record anything I get from my Charter subscription. At this time you can't do this with any other software. If Microsoft stops supporting WMC, I think people like me will be screwed. If you know of another program with the ability to watch and record (also, schedule recordings in the future) encrypted channels, let me know.

OK, this is really strange... I just tried running the unRAID Main menu and the MyMain plugin menu from my browser and suddenly they work. Any idea why they stopped working and now are fine??

for ethtool eth0, please see attachment. Thanks for your help!

ps aux | grep emhttp returns: root 1158 0.0 0.0 5768 1484 ? S1 2014 29:51 /usr/local/sbin /emhttp root 25433 0.0 0.0 2452 584 pts/0 R+ 15:49 0:00 grep emhttp

Just a few more details. My unRAID server has an Abit AB9 Pro motherboard. This motherboard has onboard dual PCI-E gigabit LAN controllers (Realtek). I've tried replacing the ethernet cable (which has worked fine for several years), I've also tried using the other LAN port and different positions on my 8-port Netgear switch. I'd try connecting it to a different port on my router (ASUS RT-N56U), but the router is too far away from the switch so it isn't easy to just swap out cables. Everything else on my home network is communicating just fine. When the unRAID server is connected to the LAN1 port, the LED light is orange (1 GB/sec) and the activity LED is blinking. When it is connected to the LAN2 port, the LED light is green (100 MB/sec) and the activity light also blinks. On the Netgear switch port, only one LED lights when connected to either port on the motherboard. When the ethernet cable is connected to the LAN2 port, with the green LED, I can't access my unRAID server over the network from another computer. I don't know if LAN2 is enabled without rebooting the server and running the BIOS setup. Might it be enabled since the LED activity light for LAN2 blinks when connected? I think they are both supposed to be 1 GB/sec ports, so I don't know why LAN2 isn't. After reconnecting the original ethernet cable and attached to the LAN1 port (with the orange LED, 1 GB/sec), both LEDs are lit on the Netgear switch, which must mean it is working in full duplex mode (?) and able to perform at 1 GB/sec.

Yeah, I should've thought of that. Thanks! syslog-2015-03-05.zip

Something strange happened earlier today. I'm running unRAID v5.0.5 (I think, but am not sure because of a problem running the main menu from my browser). I was doing some basic file management from one of the computers on my network. I have the unRAID users set so that I'm the only user with read/write permissions, so I normally don't have any problems with disk management - writing and deleting files. However, I was trying to delete a folder and Windows reported an error and wouldn't let me delete it because of a problem with permissions. I'm not sure what changed because I didn't have this problem a few minutes earlier while working in a different folder on the server. Using my browser, I ran the unRAID main menu and checked to see if the permissions had changed - they didn't. Then I navigated to the folder to see if there was something out of the ordinary - there wasn't. Then while poking around, my browser window just stopped displaying the unRAID menu and reported the web page is unavailable. So I decided to try myMenu and was able to poke around again. I could see that the folder in question had files on a couple different drives. Using this info, I used PuTTY to open a telnet session and navigate to the 2 different disks and deleted the folder from the server. This is how I was able to remove the folder and get around the network permissions problem. After doing this, I can no longer monitor my unRAID setup using either the unRAID main menu or myMenu from my browser. I have tried using different computers on my networks. I normally use Chrome. I also tried IE. I can still use Windows to navigate my unRAID server. I can play media files from the server, etc., so it seems to be fine. I just can't run the menus from my browser. Any recommendations for getting these browser utilities working again? Should I manually stop the array and reboot the server? If so, how do you do this from a telnet session? My syslog is too large to attach to this post.

I reverted back to RC11 and tried again. Luckily, I backed up my flash drive before the last attempt. This time I used the directions for installing on a new flash drive. Then I copied my config folder back. After rebooting, it works.

The readme has instructions for upgrading from release 5.0 or later or from before release 5.0. Does a release candidate qualify as a release 5.0 or later? Or, is it considered before 5.0?

I followed these instructions (http://lime-technology.com/wiki/index.php/Upgrade_Instructions) from the section '5.0-rc9 through 5.0-rc16c'. I stopped the array and referencing the flash share on my network, I copied the files bzimage, bzroot, and syslinux.cfg from the zip file to the root of my flash device, overwriting the same-named files already there. Note: my flash drive didn't have a directory called 'syslinux', so I also copied that directory over from the 5.0.5 zip file. The new syslinux.cfg file was copied from the 'syslinux' directory to the root of my flash drive. Then I rebooted my server and waited for over 10 minutes. It doesn't boot up. I'm sure there something I must've missed, but I can't figure out what could be wrong.

I figured out a way to delete the folder. Using Putty, I started a telnet session and then navigated to the parent folder from the command prompt. Then I typed: "rm -rf <DirectoryName>" (substituting <DirectoryName> with the actual directory name) Not sure if this is the best way to solve this problem, but it worked. BTW, Using the MyMain plugin, I was able to view a list of open files by clicking on the 'open files' button in the System Info tab. I searched for but could not find the problem directory or its contents in this list. However, I did find one of my audio files (a FLAC file) in this list. This file should not be open. I'm not playing with any application, so I wonder why it is in this list and how I can close the file. Update: I searched for the open flac file and it is no longer in the open files list. It's weird that it was there before, because the file was not getting used in any way that I am aware of.

The share (Music) is configured so I have Read/Write access. All other users only have Read access, which is also the case with all of my shares. I haven't had problems like this with any other folder stored on my unRAID server. syslog-2013-11-06.txt

When I try to delete a folder in my share, I get the following 'File Access Denied' messages: This happens to every file in the folder. I can pick 'Try Again', 'Skip' or 'Cancel', but nothing works and only canceling removes the message without deleting anything. When I right-click on the folder and pick 'Properties' the dialog shows the 'Read-only' attribute is applied, which I pick to remove. Under the Security tab I've tried to change permission, but nothing seems to work. The users names displayed include "Everyone", "nobody (Unix User\nobody)" amd "users (Unix Group\users)". Does anyone know how I can get rid of this folder and its contents?