Win 10 VM caused corrupted Parity Disk


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While changing some settings inside of my Windows 10 virtual machine (trying to update the Microsoft Display Driver to that in the qxl directory of the VirtIO disk), I lost the network connection between my computer and the unRAID computer.  When I went to the unRAID computer, I saw some message about an error on the cache disk (my virtual machines are all on a separate SSD which is not a part of the unRAID array, so I'm not sure why the cache disk was even involved).  There was no blinking cursor, so I'm assuming that the terminal was inoperative.  I had to do a hard shutdown.

 

When the machine came back on, I received the inevitable message that I had performed an unclean shutdown and that a parity check was necessary.  When that started up, I got a message saying that my parity disk had errors and I got the red X beside that disk.

 

All because of trying to update a driver in a virtual machine.

 

What in the world is going on?

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32 minutes ago, JohnSnyder said:

The smart report has been perfect for that disk.

 

I couldn't collect any data prior to the hard shutdown because the console was unresponsive.  I had to press and hold the power button to do a hard shutdown.

 

4 hours ago, JohnSnyder said:

When the machine came back on, I received the inevitable message that I had performed an unclean shutdown and that a parity check was necessary.  When that started up, I got a message saying that my parity disk had errors and I got the red X beside that disk.

The diagnostics we need to see is from the red X event, which was after you restarted from the hard shutdown. Hopefully you haven't rebooted since then.

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