January 1, 20251 yr Hey Guys, So I kinda found myself in an odd stupid situation. It all started when i bought 2x14tb hard drives locally online. I didnt know they were fake later on and didnt know fake hard drive existed till i experienced them. anyway so i added the 14tb to the parity (solo) and it went fine (yes it actually succeeded). now the 2nd drive i didnt use and just wanted to have it for spare. but after a few months one of the drive actually died which was a great opportunity for me to use the spare 14tb, so i swapped out the dead 3tb with the 14tb. upon rebuild the drive failed, so i thought oh ok the drive must have been faulty. i didnt have time to fix the problem right away because of work. but long story short, my unraid server emulated the missing drive which was great no lost data. after some time, while emulated, i decided to move the files from the emulated drive to my other drives because by this i already found out my "broken" 14tb was fake and i thought oh ok i probably got lucky on the other one. anyway this setup ran for months, then i noticed the server has repopulated the emulated drive with significant data even though i already moved/cleared them. then ofcourse my luck ran out as my parity now are showing errors, not alot but its there and the emulated drive has become an unsupported drive/unmountable/no file system. i know im already screwed but the files in my server are just movies so no big deal. but is there anyway i can recover the corrupted emulated drive? i already have a 12tb drive, but my problem is i forgot i tried to add the 14tb to the dead drive, and now unraid only wants 14tb or higher. is the corrupted emulated drive cannot be retrievable at this point? do i just make a new config so i can add the 12tb to my pool? then ultimately replace my fake 14tb parity drive soon? thanks for the advice if any. Karl
January 1, 20251 yr Author 21 minutes ago, JorgeB said: Please post the diagnostics. sobnology-diagnostics-20250101-2108.zip
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