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How do I know which disk drive it is based on Windows' event logs?

 
 
Ant
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      7th Jun 2007
Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
paging operation.

Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.

Thank you in advance.
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Ant wrote:
> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
> paging operation.
>
> Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
> Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
> Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
> total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.


\Device\Harddisk3\D is a cutted string, a complete version
would be like \Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+d which is usually
the 'DOS device name' or 'symbolic link' of is a removable
flash drive.
Search with my commandline tool ListUsbDrives for this name,
then you know the drive in question, which appartenly doesn't
work stable:
http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip


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      7th Jun 2007
On 6/7/2007 12:14 AM PT, Uwe Sieber wrote:

> Ant wrote:
>> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
>> paging operation.
>>
>> Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
>> Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
>> Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
>> total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.

>
> \Device\Harddisk3\D is a cutted string, a complete version
> would be like \Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+d which is usually
> the 'DOS device name' or 'symbolic link' of is a removable
> flash drive.
> Search with my commandline tool ListUsbDrives for this name,
> then you know the drive in question, which appartenly doesn't
> work stable:
> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip


Uwe, I don't have any USB storage devices hooked up. Here's the result:
ListUsbDrives V1.6
Lists attached USB drives and their USB port names for USBDLM
and FireWire drives and CardReaders
Freeware by Uwe Sieber - www.uwe-sieber.de

No USB drives found

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      7th Jun 2007
A screen shot of Computer Management showing all my drives:
http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5...agementox1.gif


On 6/7/2007 12:03 AM PT, Ant wrote:

> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
> paging operation.
>
> Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
> Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
> Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
> total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.
>
> Thank you in advance.

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      7th Jun 2007
Ant wrote:
> A screen shot of Computer Management showing all my drives:
> http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5...agementox1.gif
>
>
> On 6/7/2007 12:03 AM PT, Ant wrote:
>
>> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
>> paging operation.
>>
>> Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
>> Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
>> Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
>> total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.
>>
>> Thank you in advance.


Did you try searching the KB. Maybe there are some hints in there.
The search term I tried was "\Device\Harddisk".

"How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message"
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865/en-us

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      7th Jun 2007

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> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
> paging operation.


DOH!!! I was just digging around for the exact same message myself.

"Harddisk3" means the third drive, which would be "Disk 2" in the Disk
Management (it counts from 0).

Also the "D" should be the drive letter of the affected drive (Disk 2 in the
Disk Management)

I don't think it's a hardware fault with the drive, but possibly a problem
with the nForce SATA controller.

My drive is a Western Digital 36gig Raptop, the only SATA drive in my
system. Mainboard is a DFI nF4 LanParty Ultra-D. Latest nForce drivers from
nVidia.

If you look at your event viewer carefully, you should see that the events,
when the start happening, are almost exactly 15 minutes and 30 seconds
apart!!!


I would REALLY like to know what's causing this myself!!!


 
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On 6/7/2007 1:36 AM PT, Paul wrote:

> Ant wrote:
>> A screen shot of Computer Management showing all my drives:
>> http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5...agementox1.gif
>>
>>
>> On 6/7/2007 12:03 AM PT, Ant wrote:
>>
>>> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
>>> paging operation.
>>>
>>> Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
>>> Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
>>> Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
>>> total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.
>>>
>>> Thank you in advance.

>
> Did you try searching the KB. Maybe there are some hints in there.
> The search term I tried was "\Device\Harddisk".
>
> "How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message"
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865/en-us


Thanks, but it is still confusing. I know it's one of the harddisk
drives, but which one? Is D my drive letter (D?
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On 6/7/2007 1:39 AM PT, Noozer wrote:
>> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
>> paging operation.

>
> DOH!!! I was just digging around for the exact same message myself.
>
> "Harddisk3" means the third drive, which would be "Disk 2" in the Disk
> Management (it counts from 0).


Ah!


> Also the "D" should be the drive letter of the affected drive (Disk 2 in the
> Disk Management)


Um, http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5...agementox1.gif
doesn't show D: drive in HDD #2 -- it's in #1. [confused]


> I don't think it's a hardware fault with the drive, but possibly a problem
> with the nForce SATA controller.
>
> My drive is a Western Digital 36gig Raptop, the only SATA drive in my
> system. Mainboard is a DFI nF4 LanParty Ultra-D. Latest nForce drivers from
> nVidia.
>
> If you look at your event viewer carefully, you should see that the events,
> when the start happening, are almost exactly 15 minutes and 30 seconds
> apart!!!


Not with mine since they were almost by seconds (three in total):
:44
:42
:41


> I would REALLY like to know what's causing this myself!!!


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Ant wrote:
> On 6/7/2007 1:36 AM PT, Paul wrote:
>
>> Ant wrote:
>>> A screen shot of Computer Management showing all my drives:
>>> http://img441.imageshack.us/img441/5...agementox1.gif
>>>
>>>
>>> On 6/7/2007 12:03 AM PT, Ant wrote:
>>>
>>>> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during
>>>> a paging operation.
>>>>
>>>> Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
>>>> Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
>>>> Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
>>>> total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.
>>>>
>>>> Thank you in advance.

>>
>> Did you try searching the KB. Maybe there are some hints in there.
>> The search term I tried was "\Device\Harddisk".
>>
>> "How to Distinguish a Physical Disk Device from an Event Message"
>> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/159865/en-us

>
> Thanks, but it is still confusing. I know it's one of the harddisk
> drives, but which one? Is D my drive letter (D?


OK, found another utility for you :-)

http://www.chrysocome.net/dd

I downloaded dd version 0.5. Unzipped it.
Opened a command window. CDed to the download directory.
Tried...

dd --list

It dumps some info about NT internal block device names
and links. You don't have to use any of the other
functionality. Maybe the output shown in the command
window, will map a partition to a \Device\Harddisk\Partition.

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Ant wrote:
> On 6/7/2007 12:14 AM PT, Uwe Sieber wrote:
>
>> Ant wrote:
>>> Example: An error was detected on device \Device\Harddisk3\D during a
>>> paging operation.
>>>
>>> Is this labelling based on the order in My Computer's Manage -> Disk
>>> Management? Because I don't see a Disk 3. So I am confused on how
>>> Windows label disk drives. I do have three physical HDDs with seven
>>> total drives/partitions (C: to I + two CD/DVD drives (M: and N.

>>
>> \Device\Harddisk3\D is a cutted string, a complete version
>> would be like \Device\Harddisk4\DP(1)0-0+d which is usually
>> the 'DOS device name' or 'symbolic link' of is a removable
>> flash drive.
>> Search with my commandline tool ListUsbDrives for this name,
>> then you know the drive in question, which appartenly doesn't
>> work stable:
>> http://www.uwe-sieber.de/files/listusbdrives.zip

>
> Uwe, I don't have any USB storage devices hooked up.



The numbers you see in the disk management are the same
as mentioned in these \Device\Harddisk4\.. strings, so
apparently you had an additional drive attached when the
log entry had been made. I can be a harddrive too, I've
just seen that there are symbolic names as
\Device\Harddisk4\DP10 too used for removable and fixed
drives but I still think that it was an USB flash drive.


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