Disk Management

[Guest]

Hello,

I have an XPe image, in which the Disk Management MMC Snap-In is unable to
connect to the Logical Disk Management service. It throws an anonymous error
dialog about being unable to access a memory location. I've checked the
services and verified that both Logical Disk services are present, and I can
manually start the Administrative service.

I have 2 other flavors of this image (same OS footprint, different hardware
config) on which the snap-in starts up fine. The only difference I can think
of is that the machine in question has a dynamic disk attached. My image
includes the Dynamic Disk component.

Any ideas?

David

 

[Guest]

Update:

I removed the dynamic disk (400GB simple volume) and now the snap-in comes
up, so it appears to be somehow related to that volume.

 

[KM]

David,

Just to clarify, you image includes "Disk Management Dynamic Volume Runtime"?

KM

 

[Guest]

Yes.

I finally tracked this down. The event log gave a clue that DmConfig.dll
was missing. It turns out that there is a low-visibility component called
"Logical Disk Manager Configuration Library" that is needed to manage dynamic
volumes via the MMC Snap-In.

The volume was fully functional with the Runtime component, just not
manageable via MMC.

David

 

[KM]

David,

Thanks for posting you finding. This is going to help someone in future.

This must be a bug because I don't see the "Logical Disk Manager Configuration Library" component being a dependency of neither
Logical Disk components nor the "Dynamic Disk Volume Runtime" nor the Disk Management components.

KM

 

[Stefaan Contreras]

Hi all,

I have a system with Windows XP Embedded Edition where in the MMC I get
'storage' but nothing under it. I need to mount (assign drive letter) to
a newly added harddisk but I can't because 'Disk Management' is not
present under 'Storage'.

Could this be related to what is described below? If so, how can I get
'Disk Management' to work?

Regards,

Stefaan

 

[Stefaan Contreras]

Hi all,

I have a system with Windows XP Embedded Edition where in the MMC I get
'storage' but nothing under it. I need to mount (assign drive letter) to
a newly added harddisk but I can't because 'Disk Management' is not
present under 'Storage'.

Could this be related to what is described below? If so, how can I get
'Disk Management' to work?

Regards,

Stefaan

 

[KM]

Stefaan,

I have a system with Windows XP Embedded Edition where in the MMC I get
'storage' but nothing under it. I need to mount (assign drive letter) to
a newly added harddisk but I can't because 'Disk Management' is not
present under 'Storage'.
Could this be related to what is described below?

Yes, it could but it is hard to tell since we know nothing about your system and hardware setup.

If so, how can I get 'Disk Management' to work?

Please add first all the components mentioned in the thread below and resolve thier dependencies.

Also, you have some other ways to assign a letter to a drive:
- use diskpart tool. You would need much less dependencies presented in your image to get the utility running there as it is a
command line but not MMC based tool.
- preassign letter using MountDevices registry key. Search MSDN or this google archive if you need more info.

 

[Stefaan Contreras]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The system is a video surveillance system

I tried mounting from a shell with diskpart but that wasn't working:
command not found.

The diskmanagement snapin isn't available on the system,I will try to
copy it over from another system and see if I can get it to work in that
way.

Thanks for all the help so far,

Stefaan

 

[Stefaan Contreras]

Hi,

Thanks for the quick reply.

The system is a video surveillance system

I tried mounting from a shell with diskpart but that wasn't working:
command not found.

The diskmanagement snapin isn't available on the system,I will try to
copy it over from another system and see if I can get it to work in that
way.

Thanks for all the help so far,

Stefaan

 

[KM]

Stefaan,

Do you have an access to the original XPE project that was used to build the system?
If you do, why not add the components mentioned, re-build and re-deploy the image?

 

[Stefaan Contreras]

Stefaan,

Do you have an access to the original XPE project that was used to build the system?
If you do, why not add the components mentioned, re-build and re-deploy the image?

Hi KM,

I don't have access to the original image.

I just tried about everything I could think of and that was suggested.
Nothing worked.

Any further suggestions are very welcome!

Stefaan

 

[KM]

Stefaan,

Problem is that you will likely have to add some components to you image.
If you don't build the image, it may appear to be very laborious. Especially taking into consideration the fact, that you will
likely have to perform a few steps back and forth.

Unless you want to build your own image to simulate the one you've got now (possible), you are better off contacting original image
manufacturer/developer.