correlate volume number to disk ?

[Beemer Biker]

Occassionally I get an error and a volume is identified. The same message
shows up in the event viewer under system. For example:

"{Lost Delayed-Write Data} The system was attempting to transfer file data
from buffers to \Device\HarddiskVolume2. The write operation failed, and
only some of the data may have been written to the file"

I only have one hard drive. At the time the error occured I was transfering
a bunch of files from a network server to my C drive. However, I had an
acronis true image mounted as "D" and a removable flash mounted as "G" or
so.

Poking around the event viewer I also see this message 22 minutes before the
delayed write failure:

"RSM cannot manage library PhysicalDrive1. It encountered an unspecified
error. This can be caused by a number of problems including, but not limited
to, database corruption, failure communicating with the library, or
insufficient system resources."

The above error looks like the acronis image I mounted had problems???? I
am guessing as the phrase library is used rather than hard disk. The source
header in the event viewer identfied the problem as "Removable Storage
Media" whereas that Volume2 error header simply said "ftdisk"


Can anyone make any sense out of this? So where was the error? Disk0 is my
"C" drive according to the disk manager, the removeable flash was not being
used and I had mounted that acronis volume and had been only looking at it.


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[Eric Gisin]

Run diskpart then "list volume". You get something like this:

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- --------
Volume 1 X DVD-ROM 0 B
Volume 6 C Windows 2K NTFS Partition 6142 MB Healthy System
Volume 7 E Windows XP NTFS Partition 6142 MB Healthy

 

[Beemer Biker]

Run diskpart then "list volume". You get something like this:

_____^^^^^^

Why isnt that included in win2k? I earlier downloaded dmdiag.exe and it
would have been nice to have picked up diskpart at the same time. I went
over to and XP SP2 system and it has diskpart.exe, same version 5.1.3565.
It was down in system32, but it hung at "On computer xxxxx" never getting to
the command shell. Strange (that was on xp sp2)

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- ---- ----
Volume 1 X DVD-ROM 0 B
Volume 6 C Windows 2K NTFS Partition 6142 MB Healthy System
Volume 7 E Windows XP NTFS Partition 6142 MB Healthy

ok, I get

Volume ### Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
---------- --- ----------- ----- ---------- ------- --------- -----
---
Volume 0 F DVD-ROM 0 B
Volume 1 C NTFS Partition 75 GB Healthy
System

there is no Volume 2, that must have been the flash drive since it was
removed some time ago.

That means the problem was the flash device?? This is strange, how can
dragging and dropping a bunch of files from network storage to my "C" drive
cause an error on Volume 2, the flash? I had been useing it earlier, maybe
it was never "closed" and something happened while transfering from NAT to
"C"??? This is indeed strange. One of the programs I was running was a
"software checkout" and SourceSafe might have attempted to store someing on
"D" instead of "C" if the working path was wrong. That is probably what
happened, but there still should not have been a delayed-write error on
"D".

However I have since updated the IDE drivers on the Dell 8300
http://tinyurl.com/rul9y. Chipset stuff was updated also, maybe that can
help. Plus I am getting a new drive, SATA instead of IDE. They told me to
throw out the one that had the dalayed-write error but I think I will take
it home instead, since the problems seems to be the flash drive.

Windows XP has a nice set of support tools, I got windiff which is quite
useful. To get windiff I had to download the entire support package, a
whole bunch of tools, mostly command line stuff. It would have been nice,
when I was looking for dmdiag, if I got diskpart as well as other stuff.


OK, I just checked that XP, SP2 system where diskpart had hung up and I got
his error message after the timeout

=====??could not handle the drives for some reason??=====
Microsoft DiskPart version 5.1.3565
Copyright (C) 1999-2003 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: JYS-DUAL-MP
The disk management services could not complete the operation.
===========================================



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