How do I know which disk drive it is based on Windows' event logs?

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Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
paging operation.

Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
total drives/partitions (C: to I:) + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N:).

Thank you in advance. :)
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Ant said:
Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
paging operation.

Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
total drives/partitions (C: to I:) + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N:).
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\Device\Harddisk3\D is a cutted string, a complete version
would be like \Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+d which is usually
the 'DOS device name' or 'symbolic link' of is a removable
flash drive.
Search with my commandline tool ListUsbDrives for this name,
then you know the drive in question, which appartenly doesn't
work stable:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip


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\Device\Harddisk3\D is a cutted string, a complete version
would be like \Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+d which is usually
the 'DOS device name' or 'symbolic link' of is a removable
flash drive.
Search with my commandline tool ListUsbDrives for this name,
then you know the drive in question, which appartenly doesn't
work stable:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip
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Uwe, I don't have any USB storage devices hooked up. Here's the result:
ListUsbDrives V1.6
Lists attached USB drives and their USB port names for USBDLM
and FireWire drives and CardReaders
Freeware by Uwe Sieber - www.uwe-sieber.de

No USB drives found

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A screen shot of Computer Management showing all my drives:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5358/computermanagementox1.gif


Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
paging operation.

Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
total drives/partitions (C: to I:) + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N:).

Thank you in advance. :)
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Ant said:
Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
paging operation.
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DOH!!! I was just digging around for the exact same message myself.

"Harddisk3" means the third drive, which would be "Disk 2" in the Disk
Management (it counts from 0).

Also the "D" should be the drive letter of the affected drive (Disk 2 in the
Disk Management)

I don't think it's a hardware fault with the drive, but possibly a problem
with the nForce SATA controller.

My drive is a Western Digital 36gig Raptop, the only SATA drive in my
system. Mainboard is a DFI nF4 LanParty Ultra-D. Latest nForce drivers from
nVidia.

If you look at your event viewer carefully, you should see that the events,
when the start happening, are almost exactly 15 minutes and 30 seconds
apart!!!


I would REALLY like to know what's causing this myself!!!
 
Did you try searching the KB. Maybe there are some hints in there.
The search term I tried was "\Device\Harddisk".

"How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865/en-us
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Thanks, but it is still confusing. I know it's one of the harddisk
drives, but which one? Is D my drive letter (D:)?
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DOH!!! I was just digging around for the exact same message myself.

"Harddisk3" means the third drive, which would be "Disk 2" in the Disk
Management (it counts from 0).
Ah!


Also the "D" should be the drive letter of the affected drive (Disk 2 in the
Disk Management)
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Um, http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5358/computermanagementox1.gif
doesn't show D: drive in HDD #2 -- it's in #1. [confused]

I don't think it's a hardware fault with the drive, but possibly a problem
with the nForce SATA controller.

My drive is a Western Digital 36gig Raptop, the only SATA drive in my
system. Mainboard is a DFI nF4 LanParty Ultra-D. Latest nForce drivers from
nVidia.

If you look at your event viewer carefully, you should see that the events,
when the start happening, are almost exactly 15 minutes and 30 seconds
apart!!!
Click to expand...

Not with mine since they were almost by seconds (three in total):
:44
:42
:41

I would REALLY like to know what's causing this myself!!!
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Heh.
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Ant said:
Thanks, but it is still confusing. I know it's one of the harddisk
drives, but which one? Is D my drive letter (D:)?
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OK, found another utility for you :-)

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

I downloaded dd version 0.5. Unzipped it.
Opened a command window. CDed to the download directory.
Tried...

dd --list

It dumps some info about NT internal block device names
and links. You don't have to use any of the other
functionality. Maybe the output shown in the command
window, will map a partition to a \Device\Harddisk\Partition.

Paul
 
Ant said:
Uwe, I don't have any USB storage devices hooked up.
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The numbers you see in the disk management are the same
as mentioned in these \Device\Harddisk4\.. strings, so
apparently you had an additional drive attached when the
log entry had been made. I can be a harddrive too, I've
just seen that there are symbolic names as
\Device\Harddisk4\DP10 too used for removable and fixed
drives but I still think that it was an USB flash drive.


Uwe
 
"Harddisk3" means the third drive, which would be "Disk 2" in the Disk
Management (it counts from 0).
Ah!

Also the "D" should be the drive letter of the affected drive (Disk 2 in
the Disk Management)
Click to expand...

Um, http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5358/computermanagementox1.gif
doesn't show D: drive in HDD #2 -- it's in #1. [confused]
Click to expand...

My mistake... Hrm. Now *I'M* confused... My logic worked well for my system.
: )

The suggestion that I saw posted elsewhere to use "dd for Windows" to do a
"dd --list" command sounds like a good one.

I agree that the Microsoft knowlegebase page is very confusing.
Not with mine since they were almost by seconds (three in total):
:44
:42
:41
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Odd... Mine are like clockwork:
....
11:40:45 PM
11:56:05 PM
12:11:28 AM
12:26:51 AM
? Didn't happen at 12:42:20 AM like I expected
1:00:56 AM
1:16:22 AM
1:31:52 AM
1:47:21 AM
2:02:50 AM
....etc
 
Awesome! Thanks.

WinObj v2.15
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/sysinternals/SystemInformation/WinObj.mspx

John
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Hrm... Still doesn't make any sense to me now...
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Same here, but better than before. Here's what I saw:

Partition0 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DR14 (Device)
Partition1 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DP(1)0-0+f (Device)

And I found out it was a Flash drive I forgot that I was using earlier.
LOL. I wonder why the error was logged earlier: "An error was detected
on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a paging operation." I ran chkdsk
on it and found no problems. Weird computers. :P
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Ah!
Also the "D" should be the drive letter of the affected drive (Disk 2 in
the Disk Management)
Click to expand...
Um, http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5358/computermanagementox1.gif
doesn't show D: drive in HDD #2 -- it's in #1. [confused]
Click to expand...

My mistake... Hrm. Now *I'M* confused... My logic worked well for my system.
: )
Click to expand...

No, you're right. Dang old me, I forgot I was using a Flash USB stick
earlier. I believe I used it during that time too. Here's what I saw
from WinObj tool after putting the Flash stick back in:

Partition0 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DR14 (Device)
Partition1 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DP(1)0-0+f (Device)

I wonder why the error was logged earlier: "An error was detected on
device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a paging operation." I ran chkdsk on
it and found no problems. Weird computers. :P
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The numbers you see in the disk management are the same
as mentioned in these \Device\Harddisk4\.. strings, so
apparently you had an additional drive attached when the
log entry had been made. I can be a harddrive too, I've
just seen that there are symbolic names as
\Device\Harddisk4\DP10 too used for removable and fixed
drives but I still think that it was an USB flash drive.
Click to expand...

Dang old me, I forgot I was using a Flash USB stick earlier. I believe I
used it during that time too. Here's what I saw from WinObj tool after
putting the Flash stick back in:

Partition0 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DR14 (Device)
Partition1 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DP(1)0-0+f (Device)

I wonder why the error was logged earlier: "An error was detected on
device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a paging operation." I ran chkdsk on
it and found no problems. Weird computers. :P
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Ant said:
Same here, but better than before. Here's what I saw:

Partition0 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DR14 (Device)
Partition1 -- SymbolicLink -- Harddisk3\DP(1)0-0+f (Device)

And I found out it was a Flash drive I forgot that I was using earlier.
LOL. I wonder why the error was logged earlier: "An error was detected
on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a paging operation." I ran chkdsk
on it and found no problems. Weird computers. :P
Click to expand...

Pretty well as Uwe had called it.

John
 
\Device\Harddisk3\D is a cutted string, a complete version
would be like \Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+d which is usually
the 'DOS device name' or 'symbolic link' of is a removable
flash drive.
Search with my commandline tool ListUsbDrives for this name,
then you know the drive in question, which appartenly doesn't
work stable:http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip

Uwe
Click to expand...

You don't know what you're talking about. Either you misunderstood
or just want to make it more complicated.... I'm not sure

It even TELLS you that hard disk 3 is drive D:
\Device\Harddisk3\D <--- right there, duh??

when looking at disk mgmt, it the 3rd partion... doesnt' matter the
drive letter, start at the top, count the partitions, top to bottom,
left to right...


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