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Unknown partitions in NT4 Server
Name: Adam Date: October 16, 2003 at 09:23:53 Pacific OS: NT4 server SP6a CPU/Ram: P2/512MB
Comment:
Hello all, Sumary of problem: 2 Disk Drives. Disk 0 - 2 partisions: all ok disk 1 - 3 partitions: one ok, 2 are listed as "UNKNOWN" when viewed in Disk Administrator, and are not accessible.
Also, in Event viewer, an error message dating to last night: " The Device, \Device\Harddisk2\Partition1 is not ready for access yet"
Name: wanderer Date: October 16, 2003 at 16:42:09 Pacific
Reply:
Before you attempt what is written in the excellent link Trvlr provided you might want to make sure all your ducks are in a row.
This should only be done if you do not have a backup. BEFORE YOU DO THIS backup EVERYTHING and make TWO ERD's.
Misuse of Diskprobe and other disk utilities can TRASH YOUR SERVER. Just so you know :-)
I personally would do a little digging in event viewer and other sources to determine what exactly happened. Did you crash? Chkdsk run? If view from outside the system [utilites] do the unknown partitions contain data?
Best of luck on your recovery.
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Response Number 5
Name: Maurice Reed Date: October 21, 2003 at 05:28:41 Pacific
Reply:
The unknown partiton could be a dignostic partition. Dell servers usually have one and I know that Compaq PCs used to have one too.
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