Pattition/volume not enabled?

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Devon

For some reason, when I added a new Ultra 320 hard drive
to my Windows 2000 server, Disk Management sees the drive,
but when I go to assign it a drive letter, I get the
following error:

"The operation did not complete because the
partition/volume is not enabled. Please reboot the
computer to enable the partition/volume."

Rebooting does not fix the problem.

Any Ideas?

-Devon
 
you probably already done it, but it's easy to forget. Is
it a new drive? Have you formated the drive yet
 
Devon ...

The first thing to try would be to rewrite the Master Boot Record (MBR).
The safest way to do this would be to boot into Recovery Console and run
FIXMBR.

One thing, by default FIXMBR will target DISK0. You want to do this one the
physical drive having the problem.

Here's how to direct the FIXMBR ...

fixmbr [device-name]

device-name Specifies the name of device needing a new MBR (such as
\Device\HardDisk1).If device-name is not specified, the default is disk 0.
If disk 0 is not the device needing repair, the device-name of other disks
can be obtained by using map.

In order to find the proper Devicename, you will need to run the MAP command
from recovery console.

Run fixmbr against the drive and boot back in to see if the new MBR resolved
the issue. If it does not, please go into Device Manager and see if you
have any bangs (yellow exclamation points) on your disk drivers.

Let us know.
 
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