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I booted up an Azure VM with Windows Server 2012 r2 and attached 5 additional Virtual hard disks to form a storage pool or a larger volume, but none of the disk/volumes are showing up in the Server Manager\File and Storage Services\Volumes\Disks. Am i missing anything?

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  • Usually the disks appear on the fly under disk management since Windows 2012 R2 supports hot disk attachment, no kidding but have you tried turning it off and on again? Sep 13, 2015 at 19:57
  • No, it doesnt. Unfortunately i dont have enough points to post the image, otherwise i can share the screenshot.
    – Ilyas F
    Sep 14, 2015 at 9:13
  • Like i have stated in the question, i got Win 2012 R2 with 5 additional Virtual Hard drives, but its displayed in the disks under my computer, but not under Server Manager\File and Storage Services\Volumes\Disks
    – Ilyas F
    Sep 14, 2015 at 9:15
  • did you by any chance format the disks and create partitions on them? Sep 14, 2015 at 9:27
  • Do the disks show up in the Disk Manager? Have you attached empty disks or existing disks? Sep 15, 2015 at 8:11

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Server Manager / File and Storage Services / Volumes / Disks only shows basic disks not dynamic disks. It could be very likely that you have created dynamic disks (e.g. in the Disk Management) and volumes on them. In that case they would show up in the Windows Explorer but not in the File and Storage Services.

You would need to convert your dynamic disks back to basic disks using the Disk Management. Conversation back to basic is not possible if there is already a volume on the disk. If there are volumes on the dynamic disk you would first have to delete the volumes.

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  • Hi @Peter, .like you said all my volumes are basic and there is no volumes created and it is basically unallocated. but when i go to Server Manager\File and Storage Services\Volumes\Disks, it does nt show up at all, and its keep showing "Display willl be complete when the server inventory has finished". Usually how long it takes to show the disks in Storage Pools. FYI : win 2012 r2/A7 Series/Azure VM
    – Ilyas F
    Sep 15, 2015 at 11:13
  • Usually it takes less than a minute. Today never more than 15 seconds. Have you tried to create a new VM to check whether there's the same behavior? The described behavior sounds strange, sounds like a corrupt configuration of some kind. Sep 15, 2015 at 14:32
  • Looks like this is an issue with the Azure VM Server with Win 2012 r2. I have raised a ticket with Microsoft storage team and awaiting their response.
    – Ilyas F
    Sep 16, 2015 at 11:10
  • Would be interested to hear the end of the story! :-) Btw, did you test if you have the same behavior on another VM? Sep 18, 2015 at 5:38
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    This excellent answer is the only place I've found that explains that dynamic disks don't show up in Server Manager/File and Storage Services/Volumes/Disk. That was puzzling the hell out of me. And I still can't figure out why they aren't shown there. That view shows disks and it somehow manages to show uninitialized disks and "unknown" disks and offline disks as well as MBR and GPT formatted disks - but not dynamic disks. Stupid stupid stupid.
    – davidbak
    Jan 28, 2021 at 23:52

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