[WHS] How to find out which HD a file belongs to?

[lowteckh]

A hard drive seems to be failing; similiar symptoms to a prior fail so I'm being extra cautious. Alert regarding a certain file duplication problem popped up; now I know which file it is, but how do I pin point which hard drive the file belongs to? Save from pulling 16 drives out (if I'm unlucky) and browsing through them...

 

[rmd3003]

1. RDC (Remote Desktop Connection) to your WHS.
2. Open a command prompt window and just navigate to each folder representing a drive under C:\fs folder (ie. Navigate to C:\fs\1A\DE\ and use the command "Tree /f". It will display the tree with all the filenames in each subfolder).

You could even redirect the output to a text file (Tree /f >C:\tree_D.txt) or even to a printer (Tree /f >PRN).

After you can search your files (for example C:\tree_D.txt) for files you need
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BTW -
To browse individual disks using Windows Explorer just navigate to C:\fs folder and you will see all your drives.......

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Better way shown here:
http://www.watchingthenet.com/how-to-print-a-directory-tree-from-windows-explorer.html


Hope it helped.

 

[lowteckh]

Thanks, I'll have this for reference next time; drive just went kaputt, can't even get the desktop to read it. This marks the ... 3rd WD drive to fail in 1 or 2 years.

 

[Archer75]

I use an addon called duplicator. I think that's what it's called. Maybe Duplication info. Works even if you don't have duplication enabled.