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Brian1600
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May 05, 2022

Drive Corruption on DFS Root

Hi.

 

The drive where one end of our DFS Namespaces exist has become corrupt.  We are unable to solve with chkdsk as the drive is too big and it never finishes.

I was planning on creating a new drive (everything is virtual) on the server and use robocopy with a /mir parameter to copy the data to the new location, stop DFS services, recreate the shares in the new location and then start DFS.

However, I have read that I shouldn't 'pre-seed' with a /mir - https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/storage/dfs-replication/preseed-dfsr-with-robocopy

Does that apply in my situation?? I'm not really pre-seeding the files, just copying the data to a new drive.  Do I need to worry about file hashing?

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