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Virtual Disk Manager says “Incorrect function.” [closed]

The "Initialize Disk" function of Disk Management in Windows shows the following error message: Virtual Disk Manager Incorrect function. Where can I found more detailed error information? (e.g. in ...
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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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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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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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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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Extend disk with diskpart or Disk Management

I have a Win 2008 Server that won't let me extend a disk. I have used both the computer management and the diskpart tool and both tell me that I have less than 1MB free and can't extend. I show that ...
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How Does Windows Number its Disks? Mine keep switching

How does Windows number its disks? By numbering, I mean the physical disks, which Disk Management calls Disk 0, Disk 1, Disk 2, etc. My C and D partition used to be on Disk 0 and my E partition was ...