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New Drives seen in Disk Manager but not Dashboard after Re-install

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I've had some problems with Launchpad and CA on a Win 7 Client which I thought I had fixed with help from the forums.

My system is a HP Microliant N36 with the WHS2011 on a 250gb HDD, with 2x2Tb drives for Shared Folders and an External HHD on USB3.0 for Server Backup - it has run reliably for several years.

The external disk crashed and was replaced but I had lost my server backups. I added 2x3TB HDDs (as GPT and both partitioned as a 2040Gb and a 740Gb partition) to increase Shared Folder storage and moved the Shared folders onto them.

That was OK, but then I was having more problems with Launchpad so eventually, since I had no viable server backup I decided to re-install WHS2011 using the original disk, which I did.

I ended up with a new (empty)set of Shared folders on the second (170Gb) partition of the System HDD (which is not where I wanted them), but the old Shared folders I had moved to the new drives were not visible, as Dashboard only shows the original 2x2TB drives, the System drive and the external drive. The new 2x3Tb drives are not visible in Dashboard or in Windows Explorer. They are visible in Disk Manager but are not explorable.

Any idea how I can get the data from the new 3 TB drives back into the WHS database and have it acknowledged in the Shared folders again?


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