Partition not Enabled?

[Devon]

For some reason, when I added a new Ultra 320 hard drive
to my Windows 2000 server, Disk Management sees the drive,
but when I go to assign it a drive letter, I get the
following error:

"The operation did not complete because the
partition/volume is not enabled. Please reboot the
computer to enable the partition/volume."

Rebooting does not fix the problem.

Any Ideas?

-Devon

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

For some reason, when I added a new Ultra 320 hard drive
to my Windows 2000 server, Disk Management sees the drive,
but when I go to assign it a drive letter, I get the
following error:

"The operation did not complete because the
partition/volume is not enabled. Please reboot the
computer to enable the partition/volume."

Rebooting does not fix the problem.

Any Ideas?

-Devon

Two things.

First you need to enable 48 bit addrssing in Windows 2000.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;305098

Then you need to create 1 or more partitions and format them before
assigning a drive letter.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

 

[Devon]

These are SCSI drive, does 48bit still apply? Also, I've
already partition/formatted the drive. It disapeared on
reboot.

 

[Leonard Severt [MSFT]]

These are SCSI drive, does 48bit still apply? Also, I've
already partition/formatted the drive. It disapeared on
reboot.

-----Original Message-----


Two things.

First you need to enable 48 bit addrssing in Windows 2000.

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en- us;305098

Then you need to create 1 or more partitions and format them before
assigning a drive letter.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team

Sorry I should have picked up SCSI when you said Untra 320. The 48 bit
addressing is only for ATAPI. I have not seen the error you are getting
and have not been able to find anything on it. It almost sounds like
Windows can't set an active handle to the drive and mount it. Maybe
someone else will have seen this.

Leonard Severt

Windows 2000 Server Setup Team