Thursday, September 24, 2009

Windows Home Server Troubleshooting

Windows Home Server provides connectivity solution for various households and home based businesses. It enables the people to share, organize and automatically backup photos, videos, music, documents, etc. But sometimes, Windows Homer Server gets affected by hard disk corruption or failure, which leads to occurrence of certain error messages. As a result, the system stops functioning or becomes unbootable. In such situations, a recent and valid data backup helps you to restore your data. However, if the backup is not complete or corrupt, then you can use Server Data Recovery solutions to recover your data successfully.

For instance- you start your Windows Home Server system and encounter one of the following error messages:
"Backup service is not running"
Or
"Backup Service Error - A possible database consistency problem has been detected in the backup database"

You receive the above error message when the health status button of the Windows Home Server is red, which means that the Windows Home Server's health status is critical.

Reason Behind It
Following are the causes of the above error message:
  1. Hard drive damage or corruption.

  2. Improper removal of external hard drive.

  3. A hard drive is missing.


Best Possible Solution :
To resolve the above error message, follow the below measures:
  1. Restart your system to see if the issue gets resolved or not.

  2. Make sure that all the external hard disks are turned on and reconnect any recently disconnected hard drive to your Windows home server.

  3. Use Remove the hard drive wizard to properly remove the hard drive.

  4. Log on to Windows Home Server from any of the connected system and check the status of each connected hard drive.

  5. If you find any of your hard disk's status as 'unhealthy', then right-click the hard disk and click 'repair'. You then need to follow the instructions of the Repair a hard drive wizard and restart your Windows Home Server.

In most of the cases, the above measures will enable you to resolve these issues. In case of a damaged hard drive, you need to seek help from a reputed Hard Drive Recovery organization to recover lost data. These companies ensure complete solutions for all Server Data Recovery needs and offer special services to recover data from damaged or failed Server hard drives.