Disk Management - Partitioning problem

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1.Using Disk Management in XP for Partition Management

Greetings,
I am looking at upgrading from 98se to XP.  When I upgrade, I will be 
converting my HD (C drive) to NTFS.
My computer has 1 physcial drive, but 2 partitions.  C drive (where the OS 
will go) with 8 GB.  D drive with 4 GB.
Will the Disk Management in XP allow me to delete D drive and then when it 
is deleted, recognize a single drive C with now 12 GB?  I realize everything 
on D drive will be gone, that's OK.
If Disk Management in XP won't "create" a single C drive with 12 GB, I 
presume that I will have to purchase something like Partion Magic to 
"painlessly" (read w/o formating) achieve the desired single 12 GB C drive?
Thanks in advance for your help.

2.Disk in Disk Management just showig up as basic BOOT partition

Hi all,
A colleague had his laptop fail on him (serious power/battery), and I'm
trying to suck the data of the disk.

The disk is a Toshiba MK4025GAS.

We've put it in an external USB 2.5" disk chassis, and it is visible to
XP.

However, in Disk Management, the disk is coming up as just a partition
called BOOT.  It is also 'healthy (active)', and is showing 37.25GB
NTFS.

Is there anything more I can do in XP to actually see what's on the
disk?  There are not options in Disk Management to do much - for this
disk, the only one which is enabled is 'delete partition' (which I
don't feel inclined to do!).

Any thoughts??


James

3.er ror: Close the Disk Management console, then restart Disk Management

Attempted to do my homework on this one.  Checked with 
Dell Support regarding adding another SCSI hard drive to 
my computer.  They said OK up to 36GB but would not 
support anything larger.  Checked with the Maxtor support 
and they said a SCSI Ultra 320 was backwards compatible 
with SCSI Ultra 2.  Both are 68 pin.  The homework was the 
easy part.

Tried to install a Maxtor Atlas IV 10K 36GB SCSI Wide 320 
LVD hard drive to my Precision 610 with latest bios.  
Already have a Quantum Atlas 10K 9GB Ultra 2 LVD (as page 
file drive for Win XP Pro) and a Quantum Fireball 9GB IDE 
hard drive (as the boot drive for Win XP Pro).  Also have 
a SCSI CD-ROM drive.  SCSI ID is 0 for 9GB (boot drive), 6 
for 36 GB (configured automatically), and 5 for CD-ROM 
drive.

The following are my attempts to get it initialized:
..	under System/System Properties/Hardware/Device 
Manager the devices are listed as   Disk 0 Quantum 
Fireball 9GB IDE
            Disk 1 Quantum 9GB SCSI
            Disk 2 Maxtor 36 GB SCSI
..	however, if I click on the Volumes tab of the 
Maxtor 36 GB SCSI drive it states Status: Not Initialized
..	but, several attempts have been made to initialize 
using the Hardware Wizard
..	have uninstalled and re-installed Adaptec SCSI 
Ultra 2 controller driver
..	when I go to Settings/Control Panel/Administrative 
Tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management and use 
the Initialize and Convert Disk Wizard it sees Disk 2 (the 
one I am trying to install) when I attempt to initialize I 
get an error message "An unexpected error has occurred.  
Check the System Event Log for more information on the 
error.  Close the Disk Management console, then restart 
Disk Management or restart the computer"
..	there is no record of an error in the System Event 
Log or any other log for that matter
..	I have closed and restarted Disk Management 
several times and restarted the computer several times 
without success in initializing the new drive with Disk 
Management
.	the SCSI Utilities program only sees SCSI ID 5 
(the CD-ROM drive)
..	removed the SCSI controller cable connector from 
both SCSI drives and rebooted
..	connected the SCSI controller cable to only the 
new SCSI drive and rebooted
..	still the same errors as above


Any ideas?
            

4.Local Disk Management Console Generates Remote Disk Management Err

"The Disk Management console failed to connect to the remote computer because 
the Disk Management remoting service is not in the Windows Firewall exception 
list. Add the Disk Management remoting service (dmremote.exe) to the Windows 
Firewall exception list and try again."

I'm logged on locally to the PC I'm trying to start Disk Management on.

5.System Disk (C) changes from disk 0 to disk 1 in Disk Management

Hello:

I have always thought that the C drive system disk should be disk 0 in 
Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Managment.  I 
recently did a re-install of Windows XP Pro with only the C drive connected.  
The install went OK and I then reinstalled all of my software.  I did this 
because one of my programs was revertng back to an expired 30 day trial and 
after trying everything the company suggested I reinstall Windows.  This 
software that I paid $500 for reverts back to the expire trial if it thinks 
the C drive serial number has changed.  I have discovered that immediately 
after I reinstalled XP the system disk C was disk 0.  I turned off the 
computer, opened the case and reconnected my second hard drive "D" and 
restarted the machine.  I then plugged in my two Firewire 800 external 
drives.  I went into Disk Management and the system disk (C) was still disk 
0.  Tonight when I tried to open the software mentioned above it reverted 
back to the expired 30 day trial.  I checked in Disk Management and the 
system disk (C) is now showing as disk 1.  There is no disk 0 listed.  I am 
sure that this is why my software is reverting back to the expired trial - it 
thinks the C disk has changed.

Does anyone know why the system disk C is changing from disk 0 to disk 1?

Thanks!

Bill



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Regards,

Bill Artman

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