September 22, 20223 yr Newbie here trying to see what would be the best way to migrate from flexraid to Unraid in this particular situation. My flexraid server consists of Intel core i5 3470 cpu 3.2ghz, 4 core and an Assus P8Z77-V motherboard. I have a total of 6 WD 4TB data drives and 1 samsung 250GB SSD. The disks were filled one at a time with Flexraid and I have approximately 18TB of data on the hard drives. Flexraid no longer works and from what I can see the disks are healthy according to WHS 2011. I cannot view the data on each disk but they are NTFS formatted. My idea is to somehow replace the drives in the server with new Larger capacity drives and setup Unraid. Then with the older flexraid drives migrate the data to the new drives in the new Unraid server. Not sure if this is even possible ? Any ideas or suggestions if this is possible ? Considering the hardware that I have is this even good idea. My idea is to run the new Unraid server as a Emby media server any ideas or suggestions would be greatly appreciated Edited September 22, 20223 yr by BluSky typo
September 22, 20223 yr Author Thank you trurl . I will read up on Unassigned devices. So I can just remove the Hflexraid data drives from the server then install new hard drives and copy over the data
September 22, 20223 yr Author Hello JohnathanM. I was only able to view the content of the flexraid drive pool in flexraid not in windows. flexraid no longer works on my server
September 22, 20223 yr 3 minutes ago, BluSky said: flexraid drive pool Do you mean these disks can't be read individually? Why do you think they are NTFS?
September 22, 20223 yr Author trurl , when I look at disk management in windows it does say they are NTFS but I cannot read the data on the disk
September 22, 20223 yr 15 minutes ago, BluSky said: when I look at disk management in windows it does say they are NTFS but I cannot read the data on the disk What drive letter / paths are allocated to them?
September 23, 20223 yr Author When I go to the server under disk management in WHS 2011 I see data drive 1 through 5 and 1 parity drive. Each drive has NTFS , healthy primary partition, capacity , free space. I cannot view the contents of the drives
September 29, 20223 yr Author On 9/22/2022 at 8:57 PM, JonathanM said: What drive letter / paths are allocated to them? JonathanM, when I go into my server in WHS2011 disk management I have attached a pic of my screen. Flexraid would pool all the drives into one large drive.
September 29, 20223 yr Right click on one of the drives, select Change Drive Letter and Paths... What path does it show to access it?
October 4, 20223 yr Author On 9/29/2022 at 4:38 PM, JonathanM said: Right click on one of the drives, select Change Drive Letter and Paths... What path does it show to access it? I'm using remote desktop to access my server. When I do as you have requested I get (c) \FlexRaid-Managed-Pool \class 1-0\{fb0ccdd5-78b1-4c58-b84...
October 4, 20223 yr 9 hours ago, BluSky said: I'm using remote desktop to access my server. When I do as you have requested I get (c) \FlexRaid-Managed-Pool \class 1-0\{fb0ccdd5-78b1-4c58-b84... So what do you see when you go to that folder in explorer?
October 4, 20223 yr Author 6 hours ago, JonathanM said: So what do you see when you go to that folder in explorer? Thank you JonathanM for your help. In explorer this is what I see
October 4, 20223 yr Seems everything here is flexraid related - probably need to talk to people who know that software to get it into a working state again or who can advise about how it works/what possible recovery options for it there are first.
October 4, 20223 yr Try adding a drive letter to the "change drive letter and path" setup. Don't mess with the existing path, just add another one.
October 4, 20223 yr Author 52 minutes ago, JonathanM said: Try adding a drive letter to the "change drive letter and path" setup. Don't mess with the existing path, just add another one. Thanks JonathanM, when I did SS you have suggested the change icon is not selectable
October 4, 20223 yr 1 hour ago, BluSky said: Thanks JonathanM, when I did SS you have suggested the change icon is not selectable Click the Add... button. 2 hours ago, JonathanM said: Don't mess with the existing path, just add another one.
October 4, 20223 yr Author 2 hours ago, JonathanM said: Click the Add... button. Thank you JonathanM, when I add another path now I am able to see the data on the HD.
October 5, 20223 yr Author Thank you very much JohnathanM for your help. So now I can transfer the data off of these hard drives and install new hard drives on the Unraid server . Appreciate your help.
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