How to Fix Drive Issue: Overallocated

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onyxlinkia

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Just ran into this issue and would like to know how to fix this. Thanks.

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Your specified New file size has to be somewhat less than what's available on the disk. I think there is a guideline in the manual. Did you happen to leave the Storage window open for a long time? If you do that, it WILL mess up and overallocate.
 
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tigerwillow1 said:
Your specified New file size has to be somewhat less than what's available on the disk. I think there is a guideline in the manual. Did you happen to leave the Storage window open for a long time? If you do that, it WILL mess up and overallocate.
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I didn't make any changes but somehow this happened. I don't recall i left the storage window opened. How to get this fixed?
 
insert a number lower than your total Drive size in GB's if it's a 4 TB drive and you are only using NEW as the folder for cam streams, make it about 85-90% of the drive size. It needs a little space to work it's magic.
if it's a 4TB, Windows see it as about 3630 GB's
So you might wanna try 3400GB for a day or two.
 
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onyxlinkia said:
I don't recall i left the storage window opened. How to get this fixed?
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If this happened because the storage window was left open, close it of course. Then rebuild the database, or if you wait long enough it will do it by itself. I've been hooked by this twice, didn't learn the first time.
 
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You Blew a Drive. maybe.
 
I ran crystaldisk info and here it's showing:

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This is 1.5 yrs old 4TB WD Purple. Somehow now windows 11 is seeing the intel SSD and it's missing D partition. Something has messed up the hard disk, not sure how to proceed from here as none of my cameras are recording now:(
 
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Weird. What does Windows Disk Management show?
 
Looked like I'm SOL on this one:( Tried to run a couple tools, hoping to get it to work but nope. I contacted WD support just now, they said it's bad sectors and asked me to go thru RMA process. This is terrible, the drive is just 1.5 yrs old, I guess WD doesn't make solid product anymore.

My next question is to how to keep all dual NIC setting, BI setting and configuration that I have. Not looking forward to go thru this again. Can I just clone what I have now?
 
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What a bummer. While I'm not in touch with WD's overall reliability I'll thrown in the standard disclaimer that every manufacturer makes a few lemons occasionally. My 2 TB WD purple drive has been flawless for 7 years, and a newer 10 TB non-purple drive is doing well so far. I think you can just export your entire BI configuration and pull it back in. I'm far from being a BI expert. It's good to have that available, but can't you just replace the drive and keep going with what's set up now?
 
You're running Blue Iris and Windows on a Separate drive right? all those setting would be on the C drive- no worries.
Or are you running multiple partitions on 1 disk? then yeah you need to make a clone of the remaining partitions
 
tigerwillow1 said:
What a bummer. While I'm not in touch with WD's overall reliability I'll thrown in the standard disclaimer that every manufacturer makes a few lemons occasionally. My 2 TB WD purple drive has been flawless for 7 years, and a newer 10 TB non-purple drive is doing well so far. I think you can just export your entire BI configuration and pull it back in. I'm far from being a BI expert. It's good to have that available, but can't you just replace the drive and keep going with what's set up now?
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I have to send in my drive to WD before they send me the replacement drive.
 
Yeah, ok, if you can in the future run windows on an SSD and save cam footage on a separate physical drive. ( recommended)
Also,,, have you run Mini-tool partition wizard to see if sees an unallocated partition, and see if it can create a new partition?
sometimes it sees partitions that Windows is not showing.
 
Flintstone61 said:
Yeah, ok, if you can in the future run windows on an SSD and save cam footage on a separate physical drive. ( recommended)
Also,,, have you run Mini-tool partition wizard to see if sees an unallocated partition, and see if it can create a new partition?
sometimes it sees partitions that Windows is not showing.
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I tried the mini tool free edition, nope it's not seeing the missing 2TB.

What free application can I use to clone the current one? I installed Acronis, since it's not detecting WD drive, it won't let me use it. Windows 11 back up needs me to sign into online account which I prefer not to.
 
onyxlinkia said:
It's on the same drive but on different partitions.
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Omygosh, I've been answering under the assumption that you use the typical setup of the C: drive holding all the files except the big storage file, with that being on a separate physical drive. That bad assumption explains some things you said that I didn't understand, and makes some of the things I've said to be misleading. In the very first post I saw that the "new" file is on the D: drive, which was the start of me going down the wrong path. My bad.
 
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