MMC hangs at disk management

[Dave T.]

Please give me pointers to solve this problem...

Vista Home Premium 32 bit
3 gigs ram.
Dual core Athlon 3800+

I did a scan in safe mode with Win Defender and Ad Aware - nothing
found. Scanned with Avast - all clear. Performed a complete Chkdisk -
all OK. SFC Scannow found no integrity violations.

When I open computer management, everything works fine. I can peruse the
event viewer, and do all the things available there, until I click on
disk management. At that point MMC.EXE hangs, according to the event
viewer. I have made no recent changes except for uninstall a download
manager a couple of days ago. The problem is that it has been more than
6 months since I last accessed the disk management utility, so I cannot
know how long it has been since it took a shyte. Any help for me?
--
Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan

 

[JerryM]

Try the following to see if it works:

Right click Start,
select manage,
select disk management,
Go to full screen to see all the drives.

 

[Dave T.]

Try the following to see if it works:

Right click Start,
select manage,
select disk management,
Go to full screen to see all the drives.

Sorry Jerry, I have no "manage" in the right click menu from the start orb.

--
Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan

 

[DDW]

Sorry Jerry, I have no "manage" in the right click menu from the start orb.

Do you have a "Start Search" box when you click the Start Orb??

If so... type DISKMGMT.MSC in it and hit ENTER.

If you don't have that box...

Control Panel (Classic mode) - Admin Tools - Computer Management -
Disk Management

DDW

 

[Dave T.]

Do you have a "Start Search" box when you click the Start Orb??

If so... type DISKMGMT.MSC in it and hit ENTER.

If you don't have that box...

Control Panel (Classic mode) - Admin Tools - Computer Management -
Disk Management

DDW

I located "manage" in the right click menu of "computer". It simply
opens the same utility with the same results. Ditto for "diskmgmt.msc".
As soon as the list of drives in the upper pane appears, the app hangs
and the start menu flickers.

--
Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan

 

[Dave T.]

Please give me pointers to solve this problem...

Vista Home Premium 32 bit
3 gigs ram.
Dual core Athlon 3800+

I did a scan in safe mode with Win Defender and Ad Aware - nothing
found. Scanned with Avast - all clear. Performed a complete Chkdisk -
all OK. SFC Scannow found no integrity violations.

When I open computer management, everything works fine. I can peruse the
event viewer, and do all the things available there, until I click on
disk management. At that point MMC.EXE hangs, according to the event
viewer. I have made no recent changes except for uninstall a download
manager a couple of days ago. The problem is that it has been more than
6 months since I last accessed the disk management utility, so I cannot
know how long it has been since it took a shyte. Any help for me?

It seems that the problem lies with the photo download monitor that runs
in the background from Adobe Photoshop Elements 6. Closing it allows
disk management to function normally.

Thanks for trying to help everyone. I appreciate it.

--
Dave T.


You can't imagine the extra work I had when I was a god. - Hirohito,
Emporer of Japan

 

[JerryM]

Glad you discovered the problem, Dave,

Jerry