W2K - No Valid Disk Config. Files

[Mike]

I had 3 hard disks hooked up to an ATA/133 controller
card (Promise Technologies)
I went to add a fourth disk and the BIOS (controller)
picked it up, but Windows 2000 did not.
I've re-arranged the disks and W2k now recognizes all the
disks on the controller as "Foreign" disks (from the
Computer Management console).
When I go to import them, I get the following message:
INTERNAL ERROR - Disk group has no valid configuration
files.
Can anyone help me out??? I'm totally stumped and cannot
find a solution.

 

[Wolf Kirchmeir]

I had 3 hard disks hooked up to an ATA/133 controller
card (Promise Technologies)
I went to add a fourth disk and the BIOS (controller)
picked it up, but Windows 2000 did not.
I've re-arranged the disks and W2k now recognizes all the
disks on the controller as "Foreign" disks (from the
Computer Management console).
When I go to import them, I get the following message:
INTERNAL ERROR - Disk group has no valid configuration
files.
Can anyone help me out??? I'm totally stumped and cannot
find a solution.

Put the disks back in their original configuration, disconnect the new disk,
and see whether W2K will recognise the 3 original disks as it did before. If
so, add the new disk, go to Disk Management, and partition and format it.
(You don't say whether you did this, so I'm assuming you didn't.) W2k should
then "pick it up." If this doesn't work, you probably have a hardware
problem. EG, did you set the jumpers for master/slave correctly? (NB: Don't
use "cable select" - it often does not work as it should., esp. if the drives
are from different manufacturers.) You may need a new cable. Etc. Lots of
possibilities, unfortunately.

If W2K does not recognise the 3 original disks in their original
configuration, you have really bollixed things. Repost with whatever new
symptoms appear, and hope someone can help you.

HTH&GL