Unmountable: Unsupported partition layout after hardware swap

[Toobie]

Hi there, I recently changed my server hardware, so I swaped all my old drives into a new server.

 

Now Unraid flags an old existing drive with full of stuff as "Unmountable: Unsupported partition layout"

(ignore the last two, these are new into this bild)

 

What is the best way to have the files from this drive back wocking in Unraid?

Format and the parity disk will restore everything?

Or I mean, the hdd is fine, so there I dont know why this should be unmountable?

 

Regards in advance

 

Toobie.

 

[itimpi]

2 minutes ago, Toobie said:

Format and the parity disk will restore everything?

NO!   If you format you will erase the content of the drive (and parity will be updated to reflect an empty file system).

 

The correct handling of unmountable array drives is covered here in the online documentation.

[JorgeB]

4 minutes ago, Toobie said:

Format and the parity disk will restore everything?

Format is never used when you want to recover data, assuming parity is valid you can stop the array, unassign disk5, start the array with the disk unassigned and post new diags.

[Toobie]

20 minutes ago, JorgeB said:

Format is never used when you want to recover data, assuming parity is valid you can stop the array, unassign disk5, start the array with the disk unassigned and post new diags.

 Parity is/was valid.

Attached the diagnostic file.

t30.unraid-diagnostics-20221228-1620.zip

[JorgeB]

Unraid recreate the partition layout and the emulated disk is mounting, if contents look correct you can just rebuild on top.

[Toobie]

1 minute ago, JorgeB said:

Unraid recreate the partition layout and the emulated disk is mounting, if contents look correct you can just rebuild on top.

Sorry didn't get this - im good in english, but not today I guess - sorry. Can you please explain this in an easier way?

[JorgeB]

If the emulated disk contents look correct stop the array, re-assign disk5, start array to begin the rebuild.

[itimpi]

You can find the instructions for rebuilding a drive onto itself here in the online documentation accessible via the ‘Manual’ link at the bottom of the GUI or the DOCS link at the top of each forum page.

[Toobie]

ok, I did reassigend the disk and the data-rebuild started.. hopefully everything is fine after that.

[Toobie]

Everything restored after 18 hours. Thanks for the quick help.