My WHS/SageTV machine has been acting up for a couple of weeks (stuttering recordings and playback, HD200s not able to access recordings, etc.) I have been trying to sniff out the problem. On Xmas day I think I found the problem, one of the 2 drives I use to store SageTV recordings disappeared from the system and nothing I tried brought it back:
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[*]Both the Short and Extended Tests on the Western Digital Diagnostics say the drive is OK.
[*]CHKDSK says the drive is OK
[*]CHKNTFS says the drive is “Cannot query state of drive F:”
[*]Disk Management shows the drive as healthy
[*]When trying to access the drive from Windows Explorer I get this error “F:/ is not accessible. The file or directory is corrupted or unreadable.”
[*]I noticed this BIOS error during one reboot “S.M.A.R.T. Capable but Command Failed”[/list:u]
I downloaded [url=http://www.piriform.com/recuva/]Recuva[/url] to see if I could recover the data. And lo and behold all of the video files are there and appear to be recoverable. My question is this, is there a way to fix the “index” file or whatever is broken/corrupted on the drive instead of having to recover and copy each of the 800GB worth of files?
Another question for once I get all these files back onto my WHS. When I built my WHS/SageTV machine I was under the impression that the SageTV recording directories couldn’t be part of the WHS pool. Is that still the case? If it is, what other options do I have to create some redundancy for the Sage recordings?
Thanks and Happy Holidays,
Brian
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