Hi
Firstly, I appreciate this is a server focussed section on the forum, but could not find a more appropriate place to post.
I have a Windows 10 box which has been offline for 6-8 months. It has two large storage spaces, both span 8 spindles and are formatted as REFS. No drives or space reconfiguration has been done in the last 2 years.
Switched it on yesterday and it started windows updates after a period.
On reboot, it failed to come up, however no apparent errors were present - it let me go into recovery options, login etc....
Today, I let it roll back the last Windows Updates..... and now I find one of my two storage spaces are set to RAW.
The second drive is perfect, thankfully.
Both storage spaces show no drive (physical) errors at all - showing the space and all drives as healthy and online. Get-virtualdisk shows spaces all healthy and operational status as ok.
I am "hoping" that somehow the failed space had been "upgraded" and now cannot be read by a downgraded OS? - is this feasible? Theory goes that it had not touched the second space, hence it remains ok.
What should my recovery approach be? I am treading very carefully here..... as you can imagine. Should I retry to get Windows update working and hope that is the root cause? I am aware that earlier W10 updates broke spaces, but understood that that defect was fixed a long time ago.
I do have backups of the failed space - however, that is on many DVD's and multiple hard drives so recovery would be a weeks work or even more.
Many thanks in advance for your time.
David
Firstly, I appreciate this is a server focussed section on the forum, but could not find a more appropriate place to post.
I have a Windows 10 box which has been offline for 6-8 months. It has two large storage spaces, both span 8 spindles and are formatted as REFS. No drives or space reconfiguration has been done in the last 2 years.
Switched it on yesterday and it started windows updates after a period.
On reboot, it failed to come up, however no apparent errors were present - it let me go into recovery options, login etc....
Today, I let it roll back the last Windows Updates..... and now I find one of my two storage spaces are set to RAW.
The second drive is perfect, thankfully.
Both storage spaces show no drive (physical) errors at all - showing the space and all drives as healthy and online. Get-virtualdisk shows spaces all healthy and operational status as ok.
I am "hoping" that somehow the failed space had been "upgraded" and now cannot be read by a downgraded OS? - is this feasible? Theory goes that it had not touched the second space, hence it remains ok.
What should my recovery approach be? I am treading very carefully here..... as you can imagine. Should I retry to get Windows update working and hope that is the root cause? I am aware that earlier W10 updates broke spaces, but understood that that defect was fixed a long time ago.
I do have backups of the failed space - however, that is on many DVD's and multiple hard drives so recovery would be a weeks work or even more.
Many thanks in advance for your time.
David
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