whsdude

I mentioned in a previous thread, I'm moving my old WHSv1 data over to a new build. The box was becoming very unstable in the last month or so, but it was a 6-yr old frankenbuild. I'd like to determine if my main 1TB disk was at the heart of the instability. Every so often, when I'd fire up the box that volume would show as "not avialable.". I'm not totally convinced it was actually problem with the drive.

Last night I moved the disk into a spacious Cooler Master HAF X case, where I am running Win 2008. Important data has been copied to a new volume, and copied again onto a USB drive. I would now like to run some serious diagnostics to see if this drive can be trusted (at least enough to keep it in the case).

My question is, what is the best disk diagnostic tool for doing this? It's a samsung drive, would I run a tool offered by them?

Thanks,

Rob

It was almost as if my frankenbuild knew his days were numbered.  It has one last job... that is, copy a few ripped DVD to my spanking new build.  Problem is, it will not fire up.  When I turn on the PS switch, the power LED light goes on as do other lights, but no hard drive or fans begin spinning.  The built-in fan of the PS doesn't fire up either.  The case's "on" switch doesn't seem to do anything.  Is it possible my Power Supply went on me.  If not, what else can it be.

I don't have any spare PSs, but a Microcenter is 10 minutes away.  Should I get a $20 Power supply to test it out?

Since I have 3 drives in the WHS box, I suspect I need WHS to fire up to see ANY of the files... would that be correct?

Thanks,

Rob

I'm running Win2008/Hyper-V with a WHS and Win7 VM. So far I really like it. So much so, that I'm considering making the Win7 VM my main workstation and migrating away from my trusty XP pro box. In full-screen mode, with a monitor hooked up, it doesn't "feel" like I'm running inside a VM. That is until I tried to get sound working. It seems the host doesn't make its sound device available to the VMs. That's a real bummer. Has anyone found a hack or a trick to get sound working on VM?

Rob

Any ideas how this could happen?

A little backgound.  Over the weekend I installed Win2008 R2 w/ Hyper-V.  I then installed WHS as VM.  Initially I gave the VM maybe 100GB then later I expanded it to 600GB.

I also installed an WHS OS update in there somewhere.  I ran a backup before heading to work.  I get home and see this.  Any Ideas?

After reading tons of info on virtualization, I think I'm going to try XenServer right out of the gate (thanks, geek-accountant) when the mobo and RAM arrive next week for my new build.

UnRaid has me curious as well. My question is this. Is it possible for me to build & config a box with the following:

1) XenServer, bare-metal VM platform
2) Unraid as a VM#1, which does the storage
3) WHS v1 as VM#2, which uses the storage set up in in VM#1
4) Win7 as VM#3 perhaps, also using storage in VM#1

I apologize if this is dumb question, but I've done very little with VMs and this is pretty much new ground for me. My instincts tell me this might be too tall of an order, but would be really cool if I could get it to work.

Rob