Disk Management

[Guest]

My "OS" is WinXP Home-SP2, after clicking Disk Management in the
Administrative Tools' Computer Management folder to format a second internal
SATA hard drive; I received this error: "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. After adding (dmremote.exe) to the exception list, I get
another error: "logical Disk Manager" The system cannot find the file
specified. What does the Disk Management have to do with Windows Firewall
and has anybody else have knowledge or heard of this type of computer problem
dealing with formating a hard drive? Special thanks for any information to
solving this bewildering situation I encountered.

 

[Guest]

Sterling,
I've been working on a very similar issue and have fixed mine and this is
how. Dmremote.exe may not be needed in your Firewall exceptions list, even
though Microsoft documentation references it quite often, along with ports
135 and 445. But here's how I fixed it...You create an exception for
c:\windows\system32\dmadmin.exe in Windows Firewall. I tried all the other
fixes from MS, like the Dcom, Com security settings, a registry hack, etc. I
undid all these fixes and just used the fix I used above and all is well,
here anyway. I hope that will help you. In addition I used a program called
Active Ports to keep an eye on the ports on both machines and that's how I
found the dmadmin.exe and then created the exception for it and all is good.
Patrick

 

[Guest]

Thank you Patrick, that is exactly the fix that I've been trying my best to
find. I really appreciate you taking the time and effort to help.