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What's the relation between “HP Diagnostics” the “Array Config Utility” and “Windows Disk Manager”
I have a failed drive that is reported in HP Diagnostics
https://localhost:2381/hpdiags/frontend2/frontend.php?
It tells me that Logical Drive 5 has a drive that is about to fail. The name of ...
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Disk order on Windows 2008 Resource Monitor
This is a rather trite question but it annoys me. See the following screen grab:
http://www.picpaste.com/Resource_monitor-LzmR5mnK.png
The order is "Disk 2", "Disk 0", "Disk 1" and "Disk 3". Anyone ...
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Hide Drive / Avoid Low Diskspace Warning on ReadyBoost Cache? [closed]
I've just added an SSD as a ReadyBoost cache drive, and have two minor cosmetic issues with it:
the drive still shows up in the drive list
I get a warning balloon every five minutes that the drive ...
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“Disk volume is write-protected” error when formatting
I have an Infortrend EonStor A16F-G2430 RAID-6 connected to Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 machine via Fiber Channel QLogic 2Gb PCI-X adapter. I am able to initialize the 8.5TB storage as GPT, and able ...
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Is there a way to cause Windows Server 2008 disks to discard changes at reboot?
We are experimenting with Citrix Provisioning Services to deploy servers in our environment, but it's been giving me a lot of problems. As I was cursing it for the umpteenth time it occurred to me ...
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RAID: Two key concepts if anyone could clear them up?
I had a quick question about RAID. I understand that RAID uses one or more parity disks to repair failed disks, but I was wondering what they mean by "declustering" the disks? And also, if someone ...
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Is it safe to mark a disk ok, in a degraded raid 5 array?
Intel Matrix Storage Console 8.9 showed a degraded array with one disk failure. Yet it offers the option to mark the disk as ok and rebuild the array? When would it be appropriate to do this? Does it ...
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How to resize RAID1 array with mdadm?
I've running Ubuntu 11.04 (kernel 2.6.38-11). I replaced 2x160GB with 2x500GB drives. They are configured as RAID1.
The partition tables show the right sizes. Here's sfdisk:
# sfdisk -d /dev/sdb
# ...
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Disk Space discrepancy SMB vs command prompt
We have a Windows 2008 server core installation that has a 400GB disk attached to it. When viewing the free space of this disk via the command prompt it reports 35GB free. Computer management also ...
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Space effecient manner to store lots of large, similar files
I have lots of ~1 GB files (database dump files, taken at regular intervals). Right now I'm just storing them all in one directory, each file gzipped. We're running out of disk space and want to ...
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How can I merge unallocated space on Windows Server 2008?
After resizing a C: partition I'm left with two blocks of "unallocated space". However despite the fact that neither of these blocks is a partition (they're just blank space) Windows sees them as ...
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Adding a new disk to shared machine, what do we do?
I hope this is the right 'exchange' to ask in.
I work in a research group, we have no SA's etc. monitoring our servers. We have total access to them, and decide what happens or doesn't happen on ...
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Is it possible to extend a partition with another partition blocking it?
I have an Ubuntu VM that I am trying to extend. It is currently 20 GB total, with 19.12 being the main partition, with an 895 MB partition at the end. I am trying to extend the large partition to be ...
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How to claim unallocated space on disk
On windows 2008 R1 server, I have a 1Tb disk that has about 400Gb at the end that's not used. I have the boot partition, then a logic volume, then the free space. I want to create a new simple volume ...
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Mounting an existing partition of an unmounted disk
I ran the fdisk -l command to show me all the disks and partitions. Here's the output:
Disk /dev/sda: 1000.2 GB, 1000204886016 bytes
255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 121601 cylinders
Units = cylinders of ...
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Disk Manager Reporting Foreign Disks
I have a server with an 8 drive eSATA enclosure attached. I have two volumes on the external controller: a RAID5 array that uses 6 of the drives and a RAID1 arrray that uses 2.
The system is ...
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Disk Manager for Windows Server
I'm working with a Windows 2008 Server, and I'm currently trying to allocate unused space to the C Drive. I've run into a bit of an issue however as my disk partitions are in the following order:
C ...
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Server 2008 R2 Disk Management Green Outline Extend C Drive
In the Server 2008 R2 disk management snap-in I have Disk 0 which has these partitions:
boot partition - 71mb
a Recovery partition 3gb
OS (C:) 40gb
DATAPART1 (D:) 150gb
Free space 40gb
Disk 0 is a ...
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Server 2008 Disk Management Hangs
So I have looked everywhere for the solution to this and have tried many things. There is one post on SE related to this and I tried the suggested answer but I am still having problems.
We have a ...
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What is the purpose of session.key in C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\Icorn
The size of the C:\WINDOWS\system32\inetsrv\Icorn\session.key file (and a similar one, session.key.bk) has gone beyond 8 GB. I want to free up space on this server.
What can I do to safely reclaim ...
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How can I un-mark a partition as active?
Overview:
I use a backup storage enclosure with 6 backup drives incrementally backup up and taken off-site. One day I noticed that the backup process was failing. I logged onto the server that is ...
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Light SES2 drive failure light from Linux?
With a SES2 capable backplane and SAS card, is it possible to light the drive failure light on a specific bay from Linux? If so, how?
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Why do I get “Device does not support SMART” on WD RE4?
I have my hard disks being set up remotely on a Dell R200 server using Ubuntu OS. When I tried to verify the disk specs (which are supposed to be WD RE4 set up in RAID1 array) I get this message:
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Windows 2008 R2: can't extend C drive, mystery partitions
I have a Windows 2008 R2 server running under VMware ESX 4.0.0. I have reallocated disk space to it in order to extend the C drive, but Disk Management has "Extend Volume" greyed out. DISKPART shows ...
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forced disk check on (re-)boot
I just now rebooted my debian server for maintainance reasons (changed the kernel). However, it seemed to not complete the reboot. So I logged in using Remote KVM and found it hanging at a forced disk ...
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Safely remove a disk from a spanned volume
I'm running Windows Server 2008 R2 and converted physical disks to dynamic disks and combined them to a spanned volume. Yesterday, one disk started throwing S.M.A.R.T Errors, so I decided to get a new ...
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What are /dev/sda1 and /dev/sda2 on an Amazon EC2 instance?
I have an Amazon EC2 instance which according to the management console has no EBS volumes attached to it. Yet, when I run df I see /dev/sda1 and \dev\sda2 both are "disk"s. What are they? Is one the ...
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Conversion from Basic failed - please help!
Hi I am in an emergency situation right now. I DO have full backups of everything, but I am trying to avoid a complete reinstall of the OS and AD. I have a simple server with one drive that was set ...
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Hard Drive upgrade advice for a Dell PowerEdge 1950
My setup is a Dell PowerEdge 1950 with 2x 140Gb Hard drives in a RAID 1 configuration. The OS is Windows 2003 Web Edition and disk is partitioned into to two, a 12Gb C: partition and the remainder is ...
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many partitions on a single filegroup?¿ does it make sense?
I'm designing a datawarehouse solution and I'm a newbie in disk configuration issues, let me explain you.
Our storage is spread over 6 storage enlosures having each of them 5 raid-1 disk arrays, and ...
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Windows 2008 additional disk going offline with reboots on Amazon EC2
OK, so I took the stock Windows 2008 64-bit Amazon AMI and wanted to add a D: drive for page file space and crash dumps. I launched the instance with a second EBS volume attached as xvdf and went ...
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Does shrinking making space available to partitions everywhere?
In Disk Management for Windows 2008, I have an extended partition that looks like this:
|----X:\ Drive----||----Y:\ Drive----||-------Z:\ Drive-------|
I am running out of space for the Y: drive. I ...
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Windows 2008 Drive Size Discrepancy
We have a VSphere server and increased the drive for the C:\ drive on one of the VMs from 20GB to 30GB. Disk management shows the correct new size in the Disk view, but the volume information still ...
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LVM is reporting I/O errors, but the disk reports no problems. Argh
I've started seeing errors reported by LVM on certain Logical Volumes (and by Xen when attempting to create virtual machines on these LVs). But I've run tests on the disk, and can't see any hardware ...
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Zpool disk failure - Where am I at?
After checking the status of one of my zpools today, I was faced with the following:
root@server: zpool status -v myPool
pool: myPool
state: ONLINE
status: One or more devices has experienced an ...
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How can I set up a RAID 1 without losing my Windows install?
I know this sounds like a SuperUser question, but I would rather ask here first.
The drives are identical Seagate SATA2 drives. They are 250GB each.
Windows XP Pro SP3 is installed on one drive, and ...
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What are the weaknesses of software RAID1 in Windows 7 and Windows 2008?
I want to migrate current data from simple hard disk drives to RAID1 to reduce the risk of losing daily data in case of hard disk failure. Every PC I want to migrate have a RAID1 support, requiring to ...
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disk management/diskpart on windows server 2008 hangs
I am having an issue on my Windows Server 2008 "Sql Server".
When I access Disk Management, the UI hangs on "Loading disk configuration information"
When I run diskpart it does nothing after showing ...
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Identifying a physical disk from its Windows device description
I have intermittent bad block errors in my Windows SBS 2003 system event log. The error description is The device, \Device\Harddisk4, has a bad block, and I would like to be able to authoritatively ...
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Disk space mismatch on OS X Server (Leopard)
My Nagios system sent me an alert to inform me that the disk space on one of the drives on our OS X server is very low. When I run df /Volumes/Apps/ I get
/dev/disk0s3 117209520 114932472 2277048 ...
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How is made sure magnetic or electric fields from devices like transformers or fans close nearby do never affect hard drives?
Fans and transformers which are inside the server case create magnetic and electric fields.
Electric fields can be easily shielded, but what about magnetic fields, they can only be shielded with high ...
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Convert Spanned Dynamic disk to Basic Help needed
Here is my scenario; Windows 2008 server on a VM Two VM disks; Disk1 > OS >Basic Disk2> Data and an Installed Application.> Basic
During the weekend, I was playing with this VM, I wanted to add some ...
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How to get partition information from non-booting server?
Need to manually rebuild a mirrored array on a server and am in the process of reinstalling SBS 2003 on it. However, it's a Dell server, and know that there's the Dell FAT32 diagnostics partition, a ...
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Virtual Disk Service Loader has stopped working
We have several relatively recent (less than 1 week) installations of Windows Server 2008 R2 Enterprise that are getting this error whenever we open Disk Management. The application name is ...
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script Disk Management configuration
I have 10 workstations with large monitors that have USB slots and several card readers built in. The card readers cannot be disabled and will map to drive letters when I image the computers. I go ...
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windows 2008 Cannot extend volume for c
I have a 150 GB hard drive on a windows 2008 server.
87 GB partition for D:\
10 GB partition for C:\
I cannot extend/increase the partition for C:\ in the disk manager utility.
as described here:
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How to create a chained differencing disk of another differencing disk in Virtual Box?
How to create a differencing disk (a chained one) from a disk that is already a differencing image? I would like to have:
W2008 (base immutable)
-> W2008+SQL2008
(differencing, with SQL ...
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What does a warning sign mean in Disk Management?
Here's a (hopefully) easy one: what does the warning sign:
mean in disk management?
The above image is of a mirrored drive (RAID 1) that is in the process of regenerating. Disk 3 was just added as ...
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Differencing Disks in VirtualBox
I'm struggling to understand how to do differencing disks in VirtualBox v3.1.0. I've created a Windows 2008 Server, but now I want to use that as a base image for a number of other servers. The help ...
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From SuperUser: Volume on spare drive marked as system partition
I asked this question on SuperUser a few days ago but haven't gotten any responses yet. I figured I would try my luck here since a) there isn't much of a difference between disk manager in Vista and ...
