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• My computer does not display the correct names of my hard drives, but because of disk management.

  original title: Hard Drive rename BUG

  I have a problem with the change of name of the hard disk.

  Disk Management displays the names for each partition, but when I open my computer C only a specific name, the rest of the partitions are named local disk and if I try to change it by right clicking Rename or properties and change volume name, after clicking on ok nothing happens, but more funny that I go to disk management and I can see the change in the name of the partition , but Explorer keeps showing local disk, drives me crazy.

  I am running windows 7 Pro.

  Someone please provide solution.

  Thank you.

  Hello

  Serious problems can occur if you modify the registry incorrectly. Therefore, make sure that you proceed with caution. For added protection, back up the registry before you edit it. Then you can restore the registry if a problem occurs. For more information about how to back up and restore the registry, click on the number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

  (http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Back-up-the-registry) How to back up and restore the registry in Windows

  You can try these:

  a. open the Start Menu.

  (b) in the area of the white line (search), type regedit and press ENTER.

  c. click on the button continue in the UAC prompt.

  d. in regedit, go to: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\explorer

  e. in the left pane, right-click on explorer.exe and click on New and key.

  f. type DriveIcons and press ENTER.

  g. in the left pane, click with the right button on DriveIcons and click on New and key.

  h. type the drive letter (EX: E) you want to change the route name and press ENTER.

  i. in the left pane, right-click on the drive letter (EX: E) and click on New and key.

  j. type DefaultLabel and press ENTER.

  k. in the right pane, click with the right button on (default) and click on change.

  To change the name of the reader - l.

  i. enter a name (Ex: My DVD), and then click OK.

  II. go to step n.

  Mr.. to restore the default drive name-

  i. leave it blank, and then click OK.

  II. go to step n.

  n. Repeat steps i to m if you want to add another drive letter icon to change.

  o. close regedit.

  Diana

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• Cannot change the drive letter. Obsolete disk management console.

  Original title:

  Help me please. I'm so sad

  my score is not see the...

  I have a problem, I ask you to solve

  

  I have suffered from an attempt to repeat to restore my driver context

  Please I want a solution to restore my files that were on this context

  

  and here

  

  What should I do

  I don't want to run out of data

  Please I want a solution

  big THX Microsoft

  Please take a look at the following links:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/2001877

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/wiki/contents/articles/19472.Windows-Server-the-operation-failed-to-complete-because-the-disk-management-console-view-is-not-up-to-date.aspx

• Satellite Pro U400 VISTA disk management has 6 primary partitions

  Hi all!

  I have a strange effect on my Toshiba laptop Satellite Pro U400 (but it seems not to be specific to this one that I saw the same symptoms elsewhere, at the same time):

  I had the laptop with a 320 GB drive with recovery-(invisible / "Configuration EISA", 1,46 Go) system (C:, ~ 150 GB) and data (E:, ~ 150 GB) volumes. It's the usual structure of Toshiba,

  pre-installed OS was Vista professional.

  As I plan to install Linux in addition, I have done as a result of preparations:

  Recovery disc Vista created 1.).
  2.) C: shrunk to ~ 100 GB using Vista disk management tool.
  3.) E: shrunk to Go ~ 98 using Vista disk management tool.
  It is suggested that 4.) E: directly behind C: using Parted Magic CD.

  Finally I got a 97 GB of free space at the end of the disc, and everything worked well away. Creating an additional on the free area, Vista disk management, resulted in an extended partition created by Vista. This extended partition contained the extra volume as well as the free space remaining behind.

  To prepare for installing Linux, I've finally created three logical Volumes inside the extended partition with Vista disk management tool.
  After that, I had the following structure of the partition on the disk (indicated by the Vista Disk Manager):

  invisible 1.46 GB, primary
  C:, ~ 100 GB NTFS, primary, active, System
  E:, ~ 98 GB NTFS, primary, data

  ~ 97 GB extended partition, containing:
  2 GB unformatted (planned for Linux swap)
  20 GB unformatted (planned for Linux root "/")
  21 GB unformatted (planned for Linux "/ home")
  Empty remaining 54 GB space

  More on Vista worked properly!

  Recently, I installed OpenSuse 11.1 using the volumes placed within extended partitions (user-specific configuration). The Installation worked correctly. Logical volumes have been formatted to

  2 GB of swap (swap Linux, / dev/sda5)
  20 GB ext3 (Linux root ' / ' on/dev/sda6)
  21 GB unformatted (Linux "/ home" on/dev/sda6)

  during the installation of Linux. Linux and Vista up and running with their scores. If I look at the hard drive with Linux' partitioning tool, I see three main partitions + range, as expected. The scope contains the Linux partitions + empty disk space.

  HOWEVER:
  ========

  If I look at the hard drive with the Vista disk management tool now, I get the following image:

  invisible 1.46 GB, primary
  C:, ~ 100 GB NTFS, primary, active, System
  E:, ~ 98 GB NTFS, primary, data
  2 GB PRIMARY, no format info displayed
  20 GB PRIMARY, no format info displayed
  21 GB PRIMARY, no format info displayed
  Empty remaining 54 GB space

  This means:
  VISTA DISK MANAGMENT ME PRESENT 6 PRIMARY PARTITIONS WITHOUT ANY COMPLAIN
  Although a hard drive on the PC architecture usually only supports maximum 4 primary partitions.

  Issues related to the:

  Have you ever seen a similar behavior?

  Is this a bug of presentation in the Vista disk management tool?

  Or is it a bug in formatting under Linux?

  Is there a solution for this problem?

  At present, the two BONES work very well. However, the disk will be get permanently damaged as soon as I try to create more partitions in the empty space left?

  Sincere greetings and thanks for your comments.

  Girard

  > Have you ever see similar behavior?
  NO.

  > Is this a bug of presentation in the Vista disk management tool?
  I doubt that it is a bug, I think you forgot something.

  As far as I know you can create 4 partitions on the HARD drive and this is the reason why you have the ability to create an extended partition.
  An extended partition can be divided into several logical drives.

  That is why it s wise to create a primary partition for Windows OS for example and an extended partition, which can decompose the in logical drives (partitions) different.

  However, I put t see a problem if everything works properly

  Welcome them

• SE error message: there is no disc in the drive. Insert a disk in drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR1

  Original title: CMD. EXE - NO DISK

  I use Windows Vista Home Premium 64

  I get a pop box which reads:

  cmd.exe - disc no.

  There is no disk in the drive. Insert a disk in drive \Device\Harddisk1\DR1

  It appears each time I try and do anything. It gives me 3 options "Cancel, try again, continue»

  If you click over there enough he goes, then pop up when you try to do something else.

  I tried to run Norton (without success), Spyware remover tools (Adware - without success)

  Any help would be appreciated.

  Hi angelover08,

  1. have you tried to change the drive letters of removable disks?

  If this isn't the case, you can try to change the drive letter designated to removable drives all the other letters other than E, F, G and check if it helps.

  Check out the link:

  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows-Vista/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter

  Hope this information is useful.

  Jeremy K
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• Change the Local C drive letters

  * Original title: assignment of drive letters

  When I installed Windows 7 (home edition) earlier, I tried to assign the letter D for the reader, but the installation process would not allow this and kept failing the letter C. can I change this to D now?

  The reason why I need to do this is that I have a program more former that works only under DOS and it will not run on any other drive except C.

  I have a 'plug-in' (auxiliary) drive that is already formatted for FAT32 and I want to give this the letter C so that I can run my BACK from that program.

  This sounds like a practical solution that can be made without too much trouble?

  Hello

   
  Thanks for posting your query in Microsoft Community.
   
  From your problem description, I understand that you want to change the drive letter to D of C, so that you can run a program under the C drive with DOS operating system.
   
  Unfortunately this action is not allowed because the current operating system, to which you have started is located on the Local C drive.
   
  If you want to know the method of assignment or change the drive letter, I suggest you open disk management and assign the drive letter and check.
   
  a. open computer management by clicking the Start button, click on the Control Panel, clicking system and security, clicking Administrative Tools, and then double-click computer management. If you are prompted for an administrator password or a confirmation, type the password or provide confirmation.
   
  (b) in the left pane, click Disk Management.
   
  c. If the hard drive is recognized in disk management and if there is no drive letter assigned, I suggest you do a right click on the drive and assign a drive letter and check if it helps.
   
  d. click on the player to change and then click on change drive letter and paths.
   
  Do one of the following:
   
  · To assign a drive letter if it has not already received, click Add, click the letter you want to use, and then click OK.
   
  · To change a drive letter, click on edit, click on assign the following drive letter, click the letter you want to use and then click OK.
   
  · To remove a drive letter, click on remove and then click Yes to confirm that you want to remove.
   
  Check this link for more information:
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows7/change-add-or-remove-a-drive-letter
   
  Hope this information helps, just reply to the State of the question to get help.

• WD5000AADS 500 GB hard drive. Windows XP Device Manager says it is installed and working properly, but it does not appear in my computer. Help!

  The disc was an external USB disk, but the fitting broke so I took off the adapter and I try to use it via its native SATA connectors. The disc is spinning and the computer know when it starts in Windows XP. It says new hardware found and go through the installation process. Windows finishes the installation, and says that everything is good with the world. I look in Device Manager and it says "this device is working properly" when I click on the drive properties. THEN..................... I click on MY COMPUTER and viola! No. DRIVE shown where the WD5000AADS should be there. There is nothing except my C: drive and my CD - DVD players.

  There are a few important (to me) information on this drive and I need to do.  HELP Please!

  Thank you

  twoiron

  Hi twoiron,

  • You are able to access the other USB devices on the computer?

  See the link below and run the Fixit tool available, check if it helps.

  A computer that is running Windows XP cannot detect a USB, an Apple iPod flash drive or an external hard disk drive

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/925196

  If him above fails tool Fixit check if the player is detected in disk management and has a drive letter assigned.

  To open disk management

  (a) from the start menu, click Run.

  (b) in the Open box, type diskmgmt.msc, and then click OK.

  If the drive is detected in disk management and the drive letter is missing, then assign a drive letter to the drive and check if that helps.

  How to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307844

• Disk management does not recognize the full disk size

  Just got a 3 TB internal SATA to replace one more small one (~ 300 GB). It is a secondary (non-bootable) drive, as it was the drive of ~ 300 GB it replaces. BIOS recognize drive 3000GO and simple BIOS of the drive test passes, but disk management it shows as only 746 GB. How can I get the full capacity? TIA.

  See this:

  How to fix the 746 deliver GB available to a 3 TB hard drive
  http://www.servethehome.com/fix-746gb-3TB-hard-drive-issue/

• Where can I find this disk management to rename my drive letters

  Somehow the drive letter for my drive external hard has changed and I need to restore it.  Where the hell is - this "disk management" that meets all these say to use to restore?  I don't know how to access disk management.

  I am running Windows XP Home SP3

  Hi the wild child,

  To open the disk management try the procedure below:

  a. click on start

  b. click on Run

  (c) in the Open box type in diskmgmt.msc

  You can also check: how to change drive letter assignments in Windows XP: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/307844

  With regard to:

  Samhrutha G S - Microsoft technical support.

• Disk Management screen 'Letters to lead change' grayed out for 2nd hard drive (IDE)

  BIOS and Device Manager see and correctly identify the Western Digital 120 GB IDE hard drive that I installed as internal hard drive (with jumper put Slave) to my new desktop.  Disk Management screen sees the drive, but it does not have a drive letter or volume: the central panel of this form, in the lower part, identifies it as disk 0, Basic, 111,79 GB and the brand as "Healthy (active, primary Partition).  Even when I right click on it, the context menu is all gray with the exception of "Delete the Volume" and "Help".  So I can't add a drive letter, and so I can't see the files on that disk.  It was my main drive under Win XP SP3 and has a LOT of files I want to copy on my new computer.  But my old computer is not bootable (except in Safe Mode, where I can see the files).
  New office (bought this week) using Vista Home Premium 32 bit SP1, completely up-to-date with the Windows updates.  No applications or other materials have been added.  Boot disk is SATA.

  KenF8,
  Of course, Vista does not see the volume.  He sees a hard disk, but does not recognize the data in this regard.  At this point, I would say are you will have to either return to the old computer and start in Safe Mode with network and try to copy the data over the network to the new computer, or copy data to a flash drive, external hard drive or DVD, or put the drive in an external enclosure that has either a USB or Firewire interface , so you can plug it into the computer as an external drive.  There is still no guarantee, however, that Vista will be able to read the data on the same drive in an external enclosure.

  You could search the net for third-party disk utility for which will work for the IDE drive brand, you have.  There are some on the market that can do amazing things with disks that have problems.

  Let us know how you decide to go and if you need our help.
  Thank you
  Gloria
  Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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• Windows 8 can't find my SATA drive (2). It does not appear in disk management, but it appear when I open the tab of properties on any drive and click displays all disks. What should do?

  I bought a new computer (custom build) and Frys Electronics put it together for me.  Disk 0 is a 128 GB SSD, 1 disk is a SATA 2 TB drive, and disc 2 is a 1 TB SATA drive. Readers of 0 and 1 have been configured correctly when I installed Windows 8 but Drive 1 was not found\initialized. Player 2 does not appear in the disk management window, but when I click on properties on any drive, and then on the "hardware" tab, the drive appears.  If I can get windows to find it, I can go configure manually.  DiskPart cannot find disc 2 in the 'LIST' command and when I get in car 2 on other commands that require a number of disc, nothing happens.

  What should I do?

  Thank you.

  I ran an old Western Digital (the two SATA drives are WD) diagnosis and there are 1 OK to drive.  I tested it and it doesn't have a writing that test a few zeros.  I thought that it was a bad drive and I must return to the seller.  The next morning I tried the WD diagnosis again and this time he passed.  The app then allowed me to format it and it assign a drive letter.

  It seems to be OK now, but I'm not load all the files on it again.

  Thank you all for your support.

  Don

• How can I delete a drive letter that does not appear in disk management?

  After updating my firmware of dvd writer has been assigned a new drive letter (j), however the old letter (f) always watch under 'my computer' but does not appear in disk management. How can I remove or remove (f) so that I can reassign my dvd burner? Windows xp sp3.

  Thank you-

  Try to run, type: cmd cmd type: diskpart in diskpart, type: list disk

  Type: HELP to handle the letters.

  Also, technical material, highlight the hardware, R.click, select listed "uninstall."

  for all that is needed, w/o reboot pc, once thru, output, pc shutdown.

  Change the connection on the material to another (moving pins connector

  thereon if necessary, slave/master), once through, start pc. XP will reinstall it at startup.

• Unrecognized USB external drives. Device Manager sees them. Explore and Disk Manager can't.

  It is a Mobo of P5ND Homebuild under XP SP3.

  External hard drives have been installed and running. However, it was necessary to reformat the operating system. After that, some of the XHDDs have been recognized, but at this point none of them are recognized.
  Device Manager sees 'Generic peripheral storage device USB' for readers, or in a case simply the letters of WD.
  The devices are not detected on my computer (Windows Explorer) or disk management.
  I swapped the cords and cables. I checked that hubs work, and I would stress that the hubs have external, and their own power of stand-alone XHDDs feeding.
  I suspect that readers have damaged file structures, perhaps they have been disconnected because of a loss of power, or my incompetence...
  In any case, they are there in Device Manager, but not in disk management or in computer.
  They do not appear on other computers either.
  The details of the driver for the XHDDs are the same as the internal hard drives. The XHDDs are all PATA. The IHDDs are all SATA.
  There is a noise clear when they are attached and detached from the computer. The computer recognizes that something is happening.
  My level is probably above beginner, but not to the expert, as I build my own units.
  The XHDDs are different manufacturing. They contain data of the value and I do not want to format.

  Have you tried plugged directly into the PC rather than through the hubs?

• External hard drive in the Device Manager but not in disk management

  So I have this external hard drive Western Digital 1 TB. I've had for over a year now and it was working fine. I would like to trade my XBox 360 and the computerregularly. Then one day I brought home, plugged into the computer and nothing. My friend and I couldn't understand anything. We have gone as far as removing the hard drive and put it directly into the computer. I have reviewed, that he has lost.

  Then yesterday, on a whim, I tried to connect it again to the USB port. It is presented in the Device Manager but says that its drivers have not been installed. Then, I changed the USB ports on the back of the computer and as if by magic, that this is once again. I had full access. Stupid (and you can see where this is going) did not immediately transfer anything off the hard drive. I'm looking for an image and listen to a song off of said hard drive when the drive went suddenly not recognized.

  I can see now the reader in the Manager of devices under disk drives, and USB devices. However it does not appear in the disk management window. And Yes, I checked as well the Productdocumentation upper and lower, that it is not listed. Go to the area where you assign drive letters not shown not be. Normally this is E:.

  I also tried to remove the UpperFilters registry in regedit. It was not to remove LowerFilters. Obviously, that didn't work or the other.

  I tried several cords and all my USB ports with no luck either.

  I went on the WD Web site, but they do not offer anything other than a partitioner that I would save rather than as a last resort as there are a number of things on the hard drive I want to save.

  So it's not like it's a new HD to be partitioned or an old man who comes out crapped. I know there's the data I just need to get home long enough to get what I need. Maybe I missed my window, but maybe I did not. Maybe someone can help. I'm at the end of my mind on this thing.

  Sounds like a problem of partition (maybe corrupted partition tables) if the device is recognized, but not the 'disk '.

  There are recovery/repair partition about tools.  Western Digital actually have some but I think that they are made for internal drives.

  If I were you, I start with WD and start looking for partition recovery/repair tools.  If this is the problem then it is the right kind of problem and you using the right type of solution can fix it easily.

  If this is not the case, some data recovery tools can help you recover some files even if you have to recreate a new partition, although I wish you much luck with this approach!

  Good luck whatever you try and make sure that you do not overwrite the what partition information, you have without making backups (many partition edititing software will offer backups)

• Windows Disk Manager XP SP3 sees no no new hard drive

  I added a new slave SATA drive.
  The BIOS recognizes the drive.

  Connected to the computer as the local administrator.
  Manager displays the drive.
  Windows Explorer shows the drive.  When I click on the drive, the system responds with "access denied."

  Question: The Windows DISK management does not display the drive.  That's why I'm unable to format the drive.  Help!

  I swapped the drives and tried another new hard drive.  Still having the same problem.  Is there a registry setting?  or something that prevents this?

  The BIOS must be set to SATA or RAID. Default settings don't

  include both, generally, in "Advanced chipset" nec IDE SATA &, if cela of

  the case. If nec either and have the xp installation cd, boot the pc on a cd, press F6

  key when you are prompted, install floppy SATA/RAID (provided by mfg or get to the controller)

  MFG web site), choose the setting, auto racing, reinstall, select setting, let it run, then press

  Enter the key, on the menu for the xp cd, press r for recovery console, select 1 for C: press on enter

  password, type: DISKPART DISKPART in DiskPART, select new SATA hd, create a partition,

  Press the key type, ESC: /NTFS D: (D: being hd SATA), once its format thru:

  OUTPUT

  Let xp boot, open diskmgmt.msc in msc, new L.click hd, take action, all, select

  'activate', close msc.

  In addition, the disk must be a MS-DOS floppy disk format, then install the SATA/RAID

  free software...