BluSky Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 (edited) 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, 2022 by BluSky typo Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Unassigned Devices plugin can read NTFS Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 33 minutes ago, BluSky said: I cannot view the data on each disk Why not? Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
trurl Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted September 22, 2022 Author Share Posted September 22, 2022 trurl , when I look at disk management in windows it does say they are NTFS but I cannot read the data on the disk Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted September 29, 2022 Author Share Posted September 29, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted September 29, 2022 Share Posted September 29, 2022 Right click on one of the drives, select Change Drive Letter and Paths... What path does it show to access it? Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 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... Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 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? Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
Kilrah Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 Try adding a drive letter to the "change drive letter and path" setup. Don't mess with the existing path, just add another one. Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 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 Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted October 4, 2022 Author Share Posted October 4, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
JonathanM Posted October 4, 2022 Share Posted October 4, 2022 10 minutes ago, BluSky said: I am able to see the data on the HD. 👍 Quote Link to comment
BluSky Posted October 5, 2022 Author Share Posted October 5, 2022 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. Quote Link to comment
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