Disk management - no drives appearing?

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Hi
Have a windows 200Sp4 (+rollup) server - all working okay but when I go into
disk management none of the 2 Hard drives appear - all i can see is the CD
drive. You can see the drives in Defrag/explorer/DOS and server is working
fine. Is there a DLL I need to reregister to get these disks to be visible?
Thanx in advance
 
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Hi
Have a windows 200Sp4 (+rollup) server - all working okay but when I
go into disk management none of the 2 Hard drives appear - all i can
see is the CD drive. You can see the drives in Defrag/explorer/DOS
and server is working fine. Is there a DLL I need to reregister to
get these disks to be visible? Thanx in advance
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Hmm... Someone will be along with a good answer in a moment but for now
could you check to see if the Logical Disk Manager and Logical Disk Manager
Administrative Services are running?

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes
 
Thanks Galen, but both are running and have been restarted several times. The
disks are visible through other means (defrag/explorer) but not through disk
manager. have applied all recent patches, rebooted, nothing in the event log
ot indicate a prob...
 
In Suzy_reid <[email protected]> had this to say:

My reply is at the bottom of your sent message:
Thanks Galen, but both are running and have been restarted several
times. The disks are visible through other means (defrag/explorer)
but not through disk manager. have applied all recent patches,
rebooted, nothing in the event log ot indicate a prob...
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It makes me wonder if maybe you have a problem with a corrupted MMC
(Microsoft Management Console) and it needs to be re-installed or even if
that's possible. That's something that *should* be covered by SFC so you
might consider a scan. I was hoping someone would come along and say they'd
seen this but, well, I haven't and no one else has popped in to say they
have either. I don't want to recommend removing the update though there's
one other problem that seems to be confirmed in that Word documents can't be
saved to a floppy in .DOC format after the update... (No wonder no one
noticed that problem ahead of time. <g>) Anyhow, I've Googled and Googled
with every search term. Maybe if we put something like "ping dave patrick"
in the subject line (he's a 2k guru) he'll know something on it. *chuckles*

http://labmice.techtarget.com/windows2000/diskmgmt/troubleshooting.htm

That's got quite a few links on it but none of them seem to directly relate
to you.

Galen
--

"But there are always some lunatics about. It would be a dull world
without them."

Sherlock Holmes
 
Thanks for the help Galen

Will go do check out that website.. fingers crossed!
thans again

Suzy
 
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