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• Could not load the virtual disk manager

  I am operating Windows 7 SP1. At one point, I lost the ability to use the virtual disk manager. I've scoured the web and many forums to find answers and none worked. I tried to repair windows, run sfc/scannow, etc stopping before you reinstall windows, which some people have suggested that I have many software loaded and am not sure that this will not happen again once I loaded the software again.

  It is a "backdoor" way to force launch disk management? My need is to change disks on some of the hardware devices, such as DVD players and card readers.

  Would appreciate any advice or suggestions... Thanks in advance.

  Hello

  Thanks for the reply.

  Glad to know that you were able to solve the problem. Your efforts to solve this problem is appreciated. Feel free to post your request here on the Forums of Windows, we would be happy to help you.

  Thank you.

• Cannot assign a drive letter using the Vista Disk Manager.

  I read these latest solutions possible, but here's my problem.  I need to connect directly a 3.5 drive I pulled a SIN of hammer to my laptop running Windows Vista... because I need to recover a folder deleted this drive 3.5 with software that only works on the directly connected motors.  Software of network recovery might work, but it seems too expensive for just the recovery of this folder.  I connected the hard drive directly via the USB port.  The system tray sees the device, but the Explorer is and of disk management to assign a drive letter is greyed out.  Please help with assigning a drive letter.  There is only one user on the laptop which is also the administrator.  Thank you!

  In my view, that Hammer NAS units are based on Linux. Therefore, the drive is probably _not_ formatted with a filesystem Windows reads/writes. Making it very difficult to recover the folder removed since all things you could do to convert to NTFS, say, will also make little probable that you can recover deleted files. Eventually, you could use one of the Linux flavors running from a DVD, for example, Ubuntu and recover the file by using a Linux tool or set the drive on a Linux machine.

  Tom

• 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

• Creation of partition using disk management in Windows 7

  Hi all

  I am setting up a new laptop and I have a question on the partitions.  Creating partition in Windows 7 disk management has the same effect as the creation of a partition before installing the operating system?

  For example, let's say we reduce C drive Windows 7 preinstalled C and D through the Windows 7 disk management tool and use the D drive for drive C for Windows and data.

  If Windows is corrupted at some point in the future, the scores also get corrupted?  If this is the case we gain nothing - so we could have a data folder in the C drive instead of split-C and D.

  Someone told me that the above method is different from creating a partition before installing the operating system.  If the partition is created beforehand, the partition is safe even if the OS is corrupt, so you don't lose your data.

  Is the above correct?

  Thank you!

  Creating partition in Windows 7 disk management has the same effect as the creation of a partition before installing the operating system?

  -> Yes, but you will find that the native disk management refuses to shrink an existing partition by more than 50% (if there are only!).

  If Windows is corrupted at some point in the future, the scores also get corrupted?

  ->, Depends on where the damage occurs, the file system or partition table.

  If this is the case we gain nothing - so we could have a data folder in the C drive instead of split-C and D.

  -> There are two big advantages of having your data on a separate drive:

  -L' backup image you create system partition is much smaller and does not grow.

  -When you restore an image, your data is not overwritten.

  Someone told me that the above method is different from creating a partition before installing the operating system.  If the partition is created beforehand, the partition is safe even if the OS is corrupt, so you don't lose your data.

  -> There is no difference. A partition is a partition, regardless of the way in which you create it.

• "Delete partition" option grayed out in disk management

  When I went to the Windows disk management 7, I tried to delete the volume and the deleted volume then to 'free space '. For some reason, when I then tried to remove the volume 'free space', the option is grayed out.

  http://picpaste.com/pics/1c17250de67ed8d6f57ef85a2a33729f.1433982901.PNG

  How can I make the option available again?

  Well, you can not remove the space on a hard disk, you can delete the partition, but

  space still exist (raw)... However, in Win7, you can extend the partition

  Follow this link.

  https://TechNet.Microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771473.aspx

  In addition, other HD options will show if you open cmd, type: DiskPart

  type: cmds-HELP, or see the menu at the link above

• Virtual Disk Manager "the device is not ready".

  I don't know about the format from outside, possibly MAC OS EXTENDED. He was not ejected a Mac and will not mount on an operating system MAC or PC (Windows 7 Professional) using Firewire (800 to 800 and 800 to 400), eSATA and USB 2.0. When I use disk management, disk will appear as not initialized and next to the "disk 33", there is a red arrow pointing down. Whenever I open the Disk Manager, the window to initialize the disk appears, but once I chose a style of partition and press OK, the virtual disk manager pops up saying "the device is not ready". I also tried to wipe the drive using CMD, (disc of DiskPart/list / select disk 33/clean), CMD said the drive was clean, but when I went to disk management, without change.

  I'm looking for a way to clean the drive so that it can be reformatted and reused.

  Hi Catherine,

  The question you posted would be better suited in the TechNet Forums. I would recommend posting your query in the link below.

  http://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/Windows/en-us/7e214b16-E415-449a-8f25-4cace51e5106/Virtual-Disk-Manager-error

  Good day!

• Disk management does not allow me to create the simple volume

  I have a 60 GB SSD and a 1 TB drive.

  I reinstalled Windows 7 and partitioned md SSD for the OS. I want to use my hard drive for storage.
  So now I have the SSD as my drive (C :) with only the OS and installed programs important. When I go to disk management, it shows my disk 0 looking fine, then it shows my disc 1 (my 1 TB HHD) empty, not even let me create a simple volume.
  Whenever I do a right-click on disk 1 I only get the option "change drive letters and paths...» »

  How can I fix it?

  Go to http://www.easeus.com and download free Easeus Partition Master.  It is much easier to use and works when the Windows disk management program is not.

  Good luck.

• Using the "System recovery" Recovery Manager, it will erase the partitions?

  Hello, I was counting on the creation of a second partition for windows 7.

  What I want is two partitions one with windows 7 and one with vista. This is the easiest part.

  Now, I was planning on moving over my larger files, which is a lot of music and a lot of digital photos on the windows partition 7. Then, I wanted to clean install vista using the system recovery feature built into the computer. Now, I see it says restore my computer to default settings, but it's a little vague.

  So my question is, even with 2 separate partitions would be a system recovery remove them both and combine them into 1, just like when I got to my computer? Or would it restore my vista partition just like it was when I got it? I've really messed with the recovery of the system too, so I don't know if there is an option to select a partition, or something, I don't want to go overboard and remove my pictures and music.

  And there are a lot of things, like 50 + GB combined, it would take a lot of time to save it online, but if that's what needs to be done, so be it.

  Thank you!

  Also the laptop I use is a Hp pavilion Dv2500 with just vista on it right now.

  Hello

  The answer is no. The Recovery Manager has his job to do once tell you her to begin.

  The HP Recovery Manager will do its thing and restore your laptop provided that delivery. It is a destructive process in terms of all the space on your hard drive, except for the recovery partition. You will find yourself with a Vista partition (C and a recovery partition (D when it is done.))

  This means that when the recovery is complete and you have all the drivers loaded, you can use the Vista Disk Manager to create your partition in Win 7.

  I hope that this makes it more clear.

  Kind regards

  ERICO

• 'Logical disk manager' found at the start of Win xp all the time

  Hello, all the...

  I get a 'logical disk manager' found to boot Win xp message all the time on start or restart... 100% of the time.

  I can use all the facilities of the computer from the disk management, but I' like this message to go.

  It is anotebook with a connected external USB drive sometimes. I also use an ethernet to usb tot internet connectivity device.

  Would appreciate a solution.

  Hello

  I suggest you to refer to the following Microsoft article and check if it helps.

  The logical disk Manager Administrative Service hangs as it begins:

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/307309

  Warning: Important This section, method, or task contains steps that tell you how to modify the registry. However, 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: 322756 (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/322756 )

  Hope the information is useful.

• Satellite L300 - How can I change the size of the partition in Vista?

  The hard drive on my L300D is roughly evenly distributed between Vista/C: and D:/data. Does anyone know if there is something in Vista that will allow me to change the sizes of the partitions?

  Thank you very much.

  Peter

  Hello!

  The partition size can be easily changed in Vista. Therefore, you can use the Vista disk management utility. On the Toshiba site I found this document:
  http://APS2.toshiba-tro.de/KB0/TSB7101OB0006R01.htm

  I think that should answer your question. Isn t it then? ;)

  Good bye

• Satellite A300 1J1 - Recovery Mode "Expert" to change the size of the partition

  I'm trying to reconfigure the size of the partition of windows with the recovery partitions as I don't like the idea of having the poit drive 50-50.

  I would like therefore to reduce it so that only the data of recovery will be adapted on the D drive and my main partition will be much greater. IE C: = 240 GB + and the recovery drive (d) will be only 5 GB (large enough for recovering data only.)

  I posted this thread here a few days ago.

  [http://forums.computers.toshiba-europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?messageID=132571𠗛]

  This and the search of these forums has gotten me to the point where I think I need to use the DVD of recovery in "EXPERT" mode This should allow me to set the partitions manually rather than automatically right in the Middle!

  I noticed that the screen asking me what to install has a SETTINGS option that is always grayed out.

  Does anyone know how to open the SETTINGS screen, or if there is another way to create the partitions manually?

  Thanks for any response.

  Hello

  I have already replied to the other thread (see the link in your message)

  The point is that you cannot resize partitions using the Vista Toshiba Recovery DVD.

  Mentioned Expert mode is not available in the Vista recovery DVDs.
  The expert mode is part of the Win XP Recovery CD.

  However, the fact is that the Vista recovery DVDs sets the laptop to factory settings and also the size of the partition.

  The sizes of the partitions can be modified in the Vista Disk Manager!

  Good bye

• Satellite A350: How to change the size of the partitions on the HARD drive?

  Hello

  I have a Satalite A350 with a 250 G, but for some reason hard drive any, that it has been partitioned with 114 for the C drive and a huge 114 for drive E g which is simply the recovery disc. I'm now at 20 g on the C, but still have a Virgin 100 g on the e.

  I guess that my computer has been incorrectly partitioned, and I know that I can reduce the E but this will increase the C?
  See you soon
  pixxyco

  Hello

  AFAIK, you can reduce the partitions in managing disks (Vista and Win 7).
  But if you reduce the E partition so the free space would be available after the E partition and you will not be able to add this free space on the C partition, which is placed behind the E partition.

  But maybe a tool of partitions 3rd third party could help you

  It is a great free tool called Gparted.
  http://en.Wikipedia.org/wiki/gparted

  Maybe you could test this!

• 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...

• Logical disk management does not recognize a slave drive

  I installed an internal HD as a slave. The BIOS sees the drive, Western Digital Lifeguard sees the drive (it checks OK) with the appropriate drive letter, PMagic sees the drive before starting, but the logical disk manager does not recognize the drive or the drive letter.

  Using Windows XP, SP3 with latest updates

  Hello

  1. The hard drive is recognized in another computer?

  If this isn't the case, then the problem could be the hard drive itself. If he is found, then the problem is in your computer. In this case, run the diskpart.exe utility.

  Use the list partition command and see if the partition is detected. If so, then I suggest you to format the drive in diskpart.

  However, take a return of all data on the hard drive before the format by plugging it into another computer. Help with backup data, see

  Backup: what, how, where

  http://www.Microsoft.com/protect/data/backup/about.aspx

  To use the Diskpart.exe utility, follow these steps:

  1. type diskpartand press ENTER to open the diskpart tool.

  2. type list diskand press ENTER. A list of available hard disks.

  3. type select disk =[n]

  n s Specifies the number of disc the disc to receive the focus.

  4. type list partition

  This command displays the partitions listed in the table to partition on the current drive.
  5. type select partition =[d]

  This command selects the specified partition and gives it the focus.

   d s Specifies the drive letter or mount point path of the partition to receive the focus.

  6. type format drive: / FS: NTFS/Quick

  For more information about commands, see

  A Description of the Diskpart command-line utility

  http://support.Microsoft.com/kb/300415

  Now you should be able to see the slave drive in Solution Explorer.