Unknown partitions in NT4 Server
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Name: Adam
Date: October 16, 2003 at 09:23:53 Pacific
Subject: Unknown partitions in NT4 ServerOS: NT4 server SP6aCPU/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" Thank you in advance for any help, Adam
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Response Number 1
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Name: wanderer
Date: October 16, 2003 at 10:54:27 Pacific
Subject: Unknown partitions in NT4 Server |
Reply: (edit)Do you know what they were before? You don't mention missing data. Number of possiblities; drive's going bad were created but never formatted this is a multiboot machine and those are fat32 partitions
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Response Number 2
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Name: Adam
Date: October 16, 2003 at 11:06:46 Pacific
Subject: Unknown partitions in NT4 Server |
Reply: (edit)Im sure both partitions were NTFS and contained shared folders. Any way to restore these partitions without data loss? Thanks Adam
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Response Number 3
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Name: trvlr
Date: October 16, 2003 at 13:38:04 Pacific
Subject: Unknown partitions in NT4 Server |
Reply: (edit)possibly: http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;153973 may help?
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Response Number 4
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Name: wanderer
Date: October 16, 2003 at 16:42:09 Pacific
Subject: Unknown partitions in NT4 Server |
Reply: (edit)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
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Name: Maurice Reed
Date: October 21, 2003 at 05:28:41 Pacific
Subject: Unknown partitions in NT4 Server |
Reply: (edit)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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