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• NTFS drive got converted to RAW disk

  My NTFS driver converted to RAW and I can't access it, would you please help?

  How I can access without lossing my data!

  Hello Mohamed,

  Thanks for posting your question on the Microsoft community.

  Thank you for details on the issue.

  The NTFS file system provides the best performance and security for data on hard disks and partitions or volumes that

  the FAT file system used in some earlier versions of Windows.

  Raw disk is used to designate a hard disk access to a raw, binary level, under data from partition level and using file system in the MBR.

  I suggest you to refer to this article and check if it helps.
  Reference:
  Convert a hard disk or partition to NTFS format
  http://Windows.Microsoft.com/en-us/Windows/convert-hard-disk-partition-NTFS-format#1TC=Windows-7

  Important notes:
  After you convert a partition to the NTFS format, you cannot convert it back. If you want to reuse FAT filesystem on the partition, you will need to reformat the partition, which erases all data on it.

  Some earlier versions of Windows cannot read data on local NTFS partitions. If you need to use an earlier version of Windows to access a partition on the computer, do not convert it to NTFS.

  Although the risk of corruption or loss of data during a conversion is minimal, you must back up all data on the partition before you begin.

  I hope this information helps.

  Please let us know if you need more help.

  Thank you

• 1.1 VDR and large VMDK

  I'm trying the 1.1 VDR in my environment but have not been able to find an answer to this on the forums or in the docs.

  I have a guest Win2k8 in one of my data centers that has a 2 TB drive and a 1.6 to drive.

  According to the docs, each camera VDR can only support two 1 TB dedupe readers. The questions are:

  (1) when you save the VMDK big two attached to the guest, will be the backup on the second disc of deduplication tape, when the first is full?

  (2) I guess I will need two separate devices for VDR to save this virtual machine (one for each reader comments), is that correct?

  (3) is there a way to bypass the 1 TB limit, or would this cause performance / stability of data issues?

  (4) I know that some are of the view that the Active Directory domain controllers should not be taken.  This virtual Win2k8 machine is a domain controller.  Any of you feel you could be a particular concern for the initial backup full?

  Thanks in advance,

  VEEI

  #1: No.

  #2: not necessarily.  To and 1.6 to 2 disks are full?  If they are full, the, little probable that you will be able to save them with VDR given destination disk limits

  #3: the 1 TB is a soft limit based on tests we did.  Note that this assumes that the destination disk is a vmdk.  Note that the data store for the destination disk VDR must have the size of VMFS block (or longer).

  #4: I'll let the other carillon on their experience with DC/snapshot backups

• external USB disk as a raw disk

  Hello

  I was looking for the solution but could not find.

  I have VMware server installed 1.0.6 on Windows XP.

  Machine VM I created since the downturn of the performance, I thought using raw disk option (I hope that better read/write performance).

  I want to format my external drive (WD My Book), using ext3 or xfs. Next, I would like to add as a 'raw disk' (not VMDK). I don't know why, but when I check the settings & gt; Material & gt; Hard drive there is no option to add PhisicalDrive which is the USB drive. VMware server can see only my hard drive (PhisicalDrive0) on the laptop, but nothing else.  Is this normal? Can I add PhisicalDrive which is the external drive connected to the USB port? If Yes, please indicate how tcan I do.

  concerning

  Rafal

  USB devices can be "directly" connected to the virtual machine. FireWire devices are considered as a pci device and will not be seen by the virtual machine, like an ethernet card or a pcmcia wlan or other device pci card.

  Joakim

• Raw disk

  When do I have to consider creating a raw disk instead of the standard?

  What are the advantages and disadvantages of RAW disk?

  Hello

  RDM requires remote storage as a SAN. If you use a Local Storage LUN then you must use a CRUDE device using the method shown in this Blog of TechTarget.

  Best regards
  Edward L. Haletky
  VMware communities user moderator
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  Author of the book ' VMWare ESX Server in the enterprise: planning and securing virtualization servers, Copyright 2008 Pearson Education.
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• RAW disk mapping - virtual Conversion / physics?

  Hi all

  I have set up a machine virtual everything on time with a basic disk and also an extra disk I configured as a "Raw Disk Mapping. When I set up the new drive with the wizard in VC, he asked me if I wanted to set up the drive as a virtual disk or physical disk. The Assistant said that if I set it up as a virtual drive, it might be included in the snapshots etc...

  At this point I have it configured with physical access.

  What I want to do now is to convert the disk to a virtual disk, so I wonder if there is a way to do it?

  Best regards, Nick.

  Stop the virtual machine and delete the ROW. Then add the ROW to the VM in virtual compatibility mode and start your virtual machine. You should be good.

• We can recover the file raw disk VMDK file?

  Somehow, we find that the VMDK (VM5.vmdk) file for a virtual computer is lost.  However, the raw disk VM5 - flat hard file always exist.

  We wonder if it is possible for us to create the file VM5.vmdk of the raw disk file?

  Thank you

  Yes... That's what I would do... He would also create a backup of your flat file in case things don't work and it never hurts to have a backup to moments like this.

  --

  Wil

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• View the raw disks connected in Solaris

  Operating system: Solaris 5.9
  DB version: 10 G Release 2
  
  In one of our machines, we had an Oracle Instance where the data files have been stored in ASM disks. Something was wrong with the ASM Instance and the instance of all crashed. Now we want a fresh installation of Oracle 10 g ASM 2. But I am not able to see these discs when I have $ df - h. I understand the fact that ASM works on Raw hard - and that the UNIX OS would not be able to see these discs. But is it possible that I could view these discs? Currently, this is the info of the disk space I get:

  $ df -h
  Filesystem             size   used  avail capacity  Mounted on
  /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s0      4.8G   2.0G   2.7G    43%    /
  /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s4      4.8G   1.4G   3.4G    29%    /usr
  /proc                    0K     0K     0K     0%    /proc
  mnttab                   0K     0K     0K     0%    /etc/mnttab
  fd                       0K     0K     0K     0%    /dev/fd
  /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s5      4.8G   4.6G   129M    98%    /var
  swap                    12G    64K    12G     1%    /var/run
  swap                    12G   152K    12G     1%    /tmp
  /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s3      4.8G   292M   4.5G     6%    /opt
  /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s6       30G    16G    14G    54%    /u01
  /dev/dsk/c1t3d0s7      9.6G   7.3M   9.5G     1%    /export/home

  How can I display the raw disks connected to this computer?

  DF reported that on mounted file systems, try "format". which lists all partitions and disks/volumes available.

• Remove diskgroup raw disk?

  Hi all.
  
  I installed of ASM (10.2.0.3) with attached databases.
  
  For the DATA diskgroup, I have 16 9 GB of raw disk files. There are more than 60 GB of free disk. I would like to give back it to the AIX admin guy. ASM used about 6G 9 g on each disc. How to make it so that there is nothing on the disk I want to remove from the diskgroup or I can just remove that via OEM and reorganize it?
  
  TIA,
  Greg

  If they are part of a disk group, you will have several disks

  Find the disk you group and save the number of disk group

  SQL > select group_number, name from v$ asm_diskgroup;

  GROUP_NUMBER NAME
  ------------ ------------------------------
  1 P1CSM2_ASM_DG1

  SQL >

  For the disk group is the disk that you want to remove the group.

  SQL > select v$ asm_disk, disk_number, mode_status, name, path where group_number = 1 order by disk_number, name;

  DISK_NUMBER MODE_ST NAME
  ----------- ------- ------------------------------
  PATH
  -----------------------------------------------------------
  0 P1CSM2_ASM_DG1_0000 ONLINE
  / dev/rhdisk2

  1 P1CSM2_ASM_DG1_0001 ONLINE
  / dev/rhdisk3

  2 P1CSM2_ASM_DG1_0002 ONLINE
  / dev/rhdisk4

  3 P1CSM2_ASM_DG1_0010 ONLINE
  / dev/rrawlv01

  4 P1CSM2_ASM_DG1_0011 ONLINE
  / dev/rrawlv02

  5 P1CSM2_ASM_DG1_0012 ONLINE
  / dev/rrawlv03

  6 selected lines.

  SQL >

  determine the disk that you want to remove

  SQL > ALTER DISKGROUP P1CSM2_ASM_DG1 DROP DISK P1CSM2_ASM_DG1_0000;

  Modified DiskGroup.

  Check operation of the DSO that will remove anything from this disc.

  SQL > select * from v$ asm_operation;

  GROUP_NUMBER OPERA STAT REAL SOFAR EST_WORK EST_RATE POWER
  ------------ ----- ---- ---------- ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------
  EST_MINUTES
  -----------
  1. RUN 1 1 548 2884 1588 REBAL
  1

  Once the operation is complete, then the raw device can be recovered

  SQL > select * from v$ asm_operation;

  no selected line

  Published by: mrmessin on May 27, 2009 12:23

• Trying to empty the trash.  After clicking on empty the trash.  An error comes up saying that this cannot be done due to the error 50.  Tried to check and repair disk permissions.  This finished.  Then tried to empty the trash again and got the same error

  I tried to empty the trash. After clicking on empty the trash. An error comes up saying that this cannot be done due to the error 50.

  Tried to check and repair disk permissions. This finished.

  Then tried to empty the trash again and got the same error 50 yet.

  I rebooted my macbook. When it restarted it flashed the apple logo, progress bar began to charge up to 15%, then the black and white code popped up for a few seconds, then a box pops up saying "your computer has restarted because of an error, press any key to restart." It is now is an endless restart loop.

  I can't go in safe mode or in disk utility.

  Any suggestions on what to try?

  Thank you

  What happens when you try to restart without danger as indicated to OS X Yosemite: start in safe mode

• Satellite Pro S300-10j and recovery disk

  Toshiba Satellite Pro S300-10j recovery disk

  OS: Vista Business

  Please can someone give me a link.
  Very much appreciated.

  Thank you

  Drivers for the supported operating systems you can find on the download page - http://eu.computers.toshiba-europe.com/innovation/download_drivers_bios.jsp

  This recovery is not understandable to me.
  What do you want exactly?

  Is that each new Toshiba notebook comes with the image of HARD drive recovery and recovery disk must be created using the preinstalled Toshiba Recovery Disk Creator.

• Tools and utilities disk

  I had to reload my Satellite because of problems. To cut a long story short, I lost the Drag and Drop program.

  I tried to reload the program from the icon on the desktop, but at this point the configuration tools and utilities disk is requested.

  I don't have this drive. It has not been provided with my laptop. I tried Toshiba customer but have not had much success.

  Can anyone help? Where would I get this drive or download the software. Thank you very much

  Hey Buddy,

  have you tried to download the "Drag and Drop" utility on the Toshiba site? The reason why I ask is because you can download all of the programs that was on your 'CD utilities & tools' Internet.

  I had the same problem and I looked at this site:

  http://EU.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/cgi-bin/ToshibaCSG/download_drivers_bios.jsp?service=EU&mode=allMachi nes

  Maybe it helps you...

  Welcome them

• Query to convert RAW disk

  I'm working on a Compaq Presario C300.

  Windows XP pro.

  When I had, he had 2 SP installed, I managed to get 3 SP installed OK, but it does not accept windows updates... & is very slow, freezes from time to time... There is not a lot of data on it, I backed it up. At this point, I'm ready to wipe the machine & reinstall XP, when I try to do that, the hard drive is not seen, even though if I go into the BIOS & run check IDE drive he finished OK.

  When I restart a message flashes upward, the beginning of a screen blue scndisk, saying: could not complete the process as type if RAW disk... Despite the fact that there is an operating system on it, how can it be possible?

  When I look in computer management, disk management there are no drives listed, only the CD ROM

  There is a partition to restore the system on this machine, but when I boot it I either get a message flash on the screen for a second or 2 on the machine in virtual memory that it just restarts.

  Initially, I thought that the BIOS was the problem, but has managed to update the BIOS to version F24 OK.

  I have the original OS disks, but when I run I get the message saying that the installation can not find any hard disk installed on the computer.  Any help most welcome.

  hubert1000 wrote:
  

  Hello.

  I got the original installation CD & disc it worked.

  Thanks for your help.

  I am PLEASED to say you can con close this call!

  Wonderful.
  You must close by marking as resolved.

• a Wi - fi and hard disk

  Hi since I put my laptop in to be repaired under warranty, he returned with no WI - FI and hard disk went from 750 GB to 75 GB. HP have corrected it to another hard drive F: but why can it still be C: drive as if it were

  Hello

  You should contact the Service Center, where you repaired it.

  And if it was a hp authorized repair center, good tech please contact hp support for addition to the validation of the issue.

  Although I am an employee of HP, I speak for myself and not for HP.
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• How to re - install programs ScanDisc and missing disk defrag

  I use Windows XP Professional and it lacks disk defrag and scan disk programs. How can I reinstall them?  I have the original installation disc if it is what is needed.

  Defrag

  Navigate to c:\Windows\Inf.

  Find the file called dfrg.inf.  (This is a hidden folder, so you will need to go to tools > Folder Options > view > check "Show Hidden files and folders".)

  Right-click on the file and select "install".

  Not sure about chkdsk if... That's what you mean by right ScanDisk?  XP ScanDisk is not provided.