Comments on: How To… Add A USB Hard Drive to Windows Home Server

By: tezzer

tezzer — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 20:28:16 +0000

There should be a dialog when you add the USB drive to Windows Home Server asking you if you want to add the drive to the pool or use it for backups. That's where you select what you need…

By: Mr. Cee

Mr. Cee — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 14:23:44 +0000

I just purchased a 1TB Maxtor 1 touch and attempted to add it to the storage pool but it want to use it exclusively for serer backups. I want to use it for storage, how do you fix this?

By: Wade

Wade — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 21:44:28 +0000

@Peter - Did you figure out how to resolve your issue? I'm confronted with the same problem. I have two USB HDDs added, and I'm trying to add a third but it isn't recognized.

By: Buddy

Buddy — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:03:33 +0000

@FAB - Yes you just use windows explorer and go to your external hard drive and highlight the drives contents and copy it over to the drives that are already added. When its done copying everything over go back and let it format it and add it. Your data will already be on the drives that were in there before you started

By: Peter

Peter — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:24:33 +0000

i just installed 3 usb 2.0 my book 1 TB external drives to my whs but i only can add 2 of them to the pool. The third one is not recognizes in the console. Anyone any idea if i can manually add this drive to the pool?

By: Trent Kaiser

Trent Kaiser — Mon, 26 May 2008 16:44:18 +0000

Something to watch on Tranquil servers: the bios is configured to boot first from available USB drives, I gather to support their recovery systems, so when you install a USB hard drive, it will try booting from that drive whenever the server is restarted and it just hangs. This is a real headache if you have automatic updates configured.

These are headless servers so what do you do? Tranquil support indicates the plastic covers on the video ports cover a real video port, not just a blank connector, so you can connect a keyboard and monitor to configure the bios. I haven’t done this yet, and in the mean time I just unplug my USB drive after any server reboot (when it is hung on restart), restart the server with the power switch, and plug the USB drive back in after I can hear the system booting off the internal drive.

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 07 May 2008 02:12:10 +0000

i have a my book external usb 1TB added to my WHS and my shared folders are in my 80gb internal and when i add files to it they wont spill over onto my external and i cant find it to move my server shared folders onto it

By: Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:37:03 +0000

Sorry Ron, WHS controls where your backups will be stored….

Terry

By: Ron Erdman

Ron Erdman — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 15:31:30 +0000

Ok. I’ve got my WHS set up. I’ve added a 2.0 USB 1TB external drive to my WHS (a pc i made into a WHS). Now I’m wondering how i control which drive my backups will go on (or can I?). I’d prefer to have everything backed up to my external USB hard drive, rather than part backed up on my 100gb internal drive and the balance spilling over onto the 1TB usb drive. Is this possible? I can’t find any options for changing my “default” backup location to a specific drive. Help???

By: Terry Walsh

Terry Walsh — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 08:05:11 +0000

Whoops – missed this one. If you have any data on the drive you’re adding to the pool that you wish to keep, you must copy this to another drive (outside of the WHS Console), as the drive will be completely formatted.

Terry

By: tv

tv — Sun, 06 Jan 2008 02:47:22 +0000

Any answer to Fab’s question?

Thanks

By: FAB

FAB — Wed, 12 Dec 2007 10:32:46 +0000

If the added drive contains data that I would like to move to the (existing) storage pool before the added drive is formattet and added to the pool, is that possible?