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No, it doesn’t. I tried that. I also tried using a hdd to USB adapter but the result is the same.

I upgraded my unraid setup and I pulled a couple of hard drives out. My unused partsI pulled out of the old version were 2*8TB Seagate Archive HDD and 2*240GB SSD. I want to put the 2*8TB Archive HDDs into a multi-bay HDD enclosure I have. I took the first HDD out of the Unraid machine, plugged it into the HDD enclosure, formatted it, and it worked immediately and well. I pulled the second HDD out and put it into the HDD enclosure and it didn't show up on my system. I have since tried to get it to show up on 2 Macs, 1 Windows PC, and even an Xbox One just to see if it would allow me to format it, but none of these systems even recognised a drive had been attached. I plugged the HDD back into the Unraid machine, powered up and it works fine, still has all its files and everything. I tried changing the format type in Unraid but this didn't help. I'm hoping I'm just missing something here, any help is appreciated.

SOLVED!!! The issue was the Windows 10 disk image I was using. I downloaded the English International version. I tried the process exactly the same again with the ordinary English image and bom, worked as expected. Thanks for the helpful replies everyone.

Thanks for the replies. I'm running version 6.1.9 Correct me if I'm wrong here, also forgive me, I think that guide is only relevant for converting an existing Windows install on a physical disk to a VM. This wouldn't apply to me as I'm attempting to install Windows fresh from an install ISO. The driver install instructions seem to be for performing within the Windows environment, using file explorer, I can't actually install Windows.

Hey, I'm fairly new at forums so be gentle however feedback and advice is appreciated so I can forum better in the future. I have UNRAID 6 running on a computer I built to serve as a NAS and it is beautiful, runs very reliably and I love it. I recently set up a VM with the latest version of Ubuntu and it runs great. I'm trying to set up a new VM for Windows 10. I have created the VM with help from a Youtube video called 2 Gaming Rigs, 1 Tower - Virtualized Gaming Build Log by LinusTechTips I used the installation ISO straight from the Microsoft site and I got the VirtIO Drivers from: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Windows_Virtio_Drivers#Direct_download My VM boots and I input my language and region settings then I am taken to a driver select page. I select browse then navigate to "CD Drive (E:) virtio-win-0.1.1" then "viostor" then "w10" then I select "amd64" and I press OK. This shows a driver in the list but when I select next it processes for a sec then an error message pops up saying "No new de i ce drivers were found. Make sure the installation media contains the correct drivers, then click OK." I have tried both the stable and the latest driver versions from the download page and I can't get past this step. Help and/or advice here is massively appreciated.

Weird. That could have something to do with why the used portion of the cache is 238GB.

I guess the answer to what makes me think they should add together is just ignorance. I didn't know so I asked. Thank you for filling me in, that's really cool by the way.

I have attached my config files. Thank you for the tip on including this. I don't know how to control global cache options but I have for now have turned use cache disk off for each user share. Previously I had it on for each share. I will switch on help and check that out. Also, is anyone able to advise why my cache drive totals 280GB only when the drives combined should total 540GB? nas-diagnostics-20160325-0019.zip

Hey, a little new to NAS, looking for help with a usage question. I have a Unraid NAS set up with a 2TB and 8TB drive for storage and a 240GB SSD and 300GB HDD setup as cache drives. I thought the way it would work is the system would leverage the better speeds of the cache drives to write data to quickly during transfers and later move that data to the storage drives. Currently however my cache is sitting as mostly full. Can anyone explain how this works to me please. Also, with my user shares; what difference does it make to have use Cache Disk "on, off, only"?

SOLVED!!!!!! I got it working!!!! So, if anyone finds themselves in the same situation, here is what I did. I plugged in a hard drive that already had a full installation of windows 10 on it and set in the BIOS to boot from that drive. Once Windows 10 loaded I navigated to http://www.asrock.com/feature/3tb/ and downloaded the ASROCK 3TB+ Unlocker Patch. The link is the icon at the very bottom of the page. I ran the EXE in the zip folder. This ran a short and quick installer. After I did this I could see the 8TB drive in the Windows system. I powered down and set boot back top my Unraid drive and wouldn't you know it..... the 8TB drive now shows up and is usable!!!!! I hope this saves someone else out there the headache as this is not clearly described ANYWHERE!!!! The tool itself has a small and vague description. I am now purchasing a full Unraid license as I am very happy with the OS and with the community support I've gotten here, thanks everyone.

I've now tried a sata to USB 2 converter and had the same result. I then plugged in a 4TB external HDD and guess what, I get the same exact issue. Could this motherboard really not support drives larger than 2TB?

Sadly I do not have one of these.

When this drive is connected and I power on the machine it goes to the ASROCK splash screen with a number of "Press F2 or Del to enter setup" and so on commands listed on screen but the system never goes past this screen and no key commands have any effect therefore I am unsure if the BIOS can see this drive.

Thanks for the replies. Ok, so the setup is this: Motherboard - ASROCK B85M-ITX PSU - Cooler Master V550 CPU - Intel Core i3-4170 @3.70GHz (Sourced from BIOS) 8GB of DDR3-1600 Memory The offending hard drive is a Seagate Archive HDD 8000GB The drive was in a Windows machine and was shared on the network, working fine for a long time. I have mounted it successfully on a mac with an external drive caddy so I have established the HDD is working normally. Since my unraid machine boots successfully and runs well I have also established that it works. Issue is, I connect that drive to that rig and suddenly......nothing. The machine stops booting normally or even at all. As far as I can tell this kind of drive should be ok to use with this hardware so I am lost as to why this issue occurs. Maybe there's some compatibility setting I am missing but I am out of ideas. I even tried disabling legacy USB support and it did not help (actually it stopped my USB ports working and I had to reset my CMOS, whoops). So yeah, I don't know what else to do honestly.

I am connecting it to the motherboard with a Sata cable, a known good cable into a known good Sata slot. The trial is limited but I am using only 3 storage devices in this system. Actually I can't tell if BIOS recognises it, when the drive is connected I can't even get in to the BIOS. I have tried disconnecting it, entering BIOS and then connecting it, I don't know if this should work but it doesn't detect it. Maybe the BIOS does change the boot order, issue is I can't change it as the system stalls on the motherboard splash screen and nothing works at all, no key options actually take me anywhere. I have AHCI set. The drive is definitely working, I pulled it from a Windows machine and have connected it to a Mac and reformatted it as Exfat. Thanks for the suggestions but so far still no resolution.