Comments on: A Serious Windows Home Server Pain Point

By: SandraMillhouse

SandraMillhouse — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 15:40:40 +0000

I never thought that the Windows Home Server is such a pain. All the feedback received about it was positive (well, above average anyway). I'll try to find an answer to one of the questions in your article. I'm really curious what happens in case of a disk failure.
Sandra Millhouse | Cheap virtual server

By: Solomon

Solomon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:08:46 +0000

Go to the Microsoft website to confirm that you can reproduce this bug and vote for it to get resolved: connect.microsoft.com/.../error-this-comp

By: Solomon

Solomon — Fri, 05 Mar 2010 04:08:00 +0000

Go to the Microsoft website to confirm that you can reproduce this bug and vote for it to get resolved: connect.microsoft.com/.../error-this-comp

By: Mike Swanberg

Mike Swanberg — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:04:55 +0000

I also have an Acer EasyStore H340 and have been having troubles with it (looks like a Caviar Green drive went belly-up, and WHS doesn't recover gracefully from such an event... meaning it doesn't recover at all). I really would love to find a good resource to help me get it running more smoothly. Any ideas?

And could someone direct me to where I can find the steps to do this: "The proper way to do this would have been to do a back up with the old disk in the dev box, replace the drive in the dev box, and then do a restore on the dev box using the windows home server software."

I've found where I can set up a drive to be the WHS share backup, but nowhere to backup the WHS iteslf.

Sorry about all the questions... I'm a tech veteran, but a raw n00b with the WHS.

Thanks,

-Mike

By: Mike Swanberg

Mike Swanberg — Thu, 31 Dec 2009 09:04:00 +0000

I also have an Acer EasyStore H340 and have been having troubles with it (looks like a Caviar Green drive went belly-up, and WHS doesn’t recover gracefully from such an event… meaning it doesn’t recover at all). I really would love to find a good resource to help me get it running more smoothly. Any ideas?
And could someone direct me to where I can find the steps to do this: "The proper way to do this would have been to do a back up with the old disk in the dev box, replace the drive in the dev box, and then do a restore on the dev box using the windows home server software."
I’ve found where I can set up a drive to be the WHS share backup, but nowhere to backup the WHS iteslf.
Sorry about all the questions… I’m a tech veteran, but a raw n00b with the WHS.
Thanks,
-Mike

By: Michael Peele

Michael Peele — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:46:40 +0000

I was playing around with disks a while back on my home desktop machine. Apparently, I put the boot disk back, but "not on the same SATA connection as the previous drive but, in my opinion, this should not matter. A fix for this is needed or I will not have as much confidence as I once had for Windows Home Server as a key backup solution."

That disk was the same disk, just on a different SATA port. Annoyed the crap out of me.

I agree with you, this is something to fix.

By: Michael Peele

Michael Peele — Sat, 19 Dec 2009 00:46:00 +0000