Disk Management Console view is not up-to-date.

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OS Name Microsoft® Windows Vista™ Ultimate

Version 6.0.6002 Service Pack 2 Build 6002

Other OS Description Not Available

OS Manufacturer Microsoft Corporation

System Name -----

System Manufacturer INTEL_

System Model DP45SG

System Type X86-based PC

Processor Intel(R) Core(TM)2 Quad CPU Q6700 @ 2.66GHz, 2660 Mhz, 4 Core(s), 4 Logical Processor(s)

BIOS Version/Date Intel Corp. SGP4510H.86A.0083.2008.0819.1026, 8/19/2008

SMBIOS Version 2.4

Windows Directory C:\Windows

System Directory C:\Windows\system32

Boot Device \Device\HarddiskVolume1

Locale United States

Hardware Abstraction Layer Version = "6.0.6002.18005"

User Name -----

Time Zone Eastern Daylight Time

Installed Physical Memory (RAM) 2.00 GB

Total Physical Memory 2.00 GB

Available Physical Memory 691 MB

Total Virtual Memory 4.23 GB

Available Virtual Memory 2.38 GB

Page File Space 2.29 GB

Page File C:\pagefile.sys

Partition **** Disk #0, Partition #0

Partition Size **** 104.43 GB (112,134,193,664 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 1,048,576 bytes

Partition **** Disk #0, Partition #1

Partition Size **** 361.33 GB (387,979,805,696 bytes)

Partition Starting Offset 112,133,668,864 bytes

I went to do something with partition magic (it recognized something with the pointers I believe, so I allowed it to automatically fix the error) and now I'm not even able to access Partition Disk #0, Partition #1 which is a drive that I used to store data (No OS). It doesn't appear in 'My Computer', but does appear in Disk Management but it doesn't seem like I can do anything with it besides delete the partition. There's a lot of data that I have stored and I don't want to lose it all.

I used a partition tool to find out what sectors each of the partitions are starting at and for one of them it's sector 15 and the other it is sector 33. I'm not sure if that has any significance to my problem, but just thought I'd let it be known.

Program: Disk Managemet
Error Message: "The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If the problem persists close the Disk Management console, then restart Disk Management or restart the computer.

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I solved this problem by going into device manager and uninstalling the usb drivers. Then when I plugged the hard drive back in it reinstalled the driver and worked.

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Hello trichard13,

Thank you for visiting the Microsoft Answers Community.

Try using diskpart to assign a drive letter to Disk #0, Partition #1.

· Click Start Orb > type diskpart

· Right-click diskpart in results above > click Run as administrator

· Once diskpart loads type list volume, press enter

You should notice that you will see your partition that you use for your data, it should not show a drive letter assigned to it.

· Type select volume 6 **** (replace 6 with the volume number assigned to the partition in question)

· Type assign letter Z (replace Z with the letter that you want to assign to it)

When you look in Computer, you should be able to see your partition.

Hope this helps

Chris.H

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Anonymous

2012-06-24T01:49:17+00:00

THANK YOU SO MUCH!
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2012-05-13T18:37:23+00:00
I had the same problem - drives D & E dissapeared after I simply launched Partition Magic 8 on Windows 7 64bit. Upon start, Partition Magic happily announced me that it found some "problems" on these drives and fixed them for me (such a nice fellow, this Partition Magic!...) After rebooting, the drives were gone. The Windows Disk Management was seeing the drives, with no letters assigned, but wouldn't let me assign letters to them (the "Refresh..." error above)

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HOW I FIXED IT:

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I downloaded and burned the MiniTool Partition Wizard Boot CD

I booted into it, selected drive D and chose "Set as active"

After rebooting into Windows, both the D and the E drive were available again.

Hope this helps :)
MiniTool Partition Wizard Boot CD helped me! Acronis Disk Director couldn't do the job, and the problem couldn't be solved through device manager. By MiniTool saved the partition. However I didn't have to set up partition as active. I converted it to logical and after reboot I was able to see it.
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2012-04-25T23:01:04+00:00
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HOW I FIXED IT:

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I downloaded and burned the MiniTool Partition Wizard Boot CD

I booted into it, selected drive D and chose "Set as active"

After rebooting into Windows, both the D and the E drive were available again.

Hope this helps :)
ok This exact same problem happened to me.

I'm running a 2 * 2 TB Stripe Raids (4 HDD's all up) and had to do some shifting around to create a bigger partition for performance. So I used Parition Magic and it failed to even run in Windows 7, but luckily I have a Dual Boot system and I booted into XP to finish the job I was doing with Parition Magic. I completely annhilated my Windows 7 Install due to some other problem Partition Magic had when you have 4 logical drives, So I backed up the parition using Acronis and then after the change, I recreated the partitoin and wrote the image back to it. Easy.

Until I booted back into Windows 7 and noticed that the Raid that I didn't even touch is missing a whole 1.5 TB drive. I booted back into Windows XP, and I could see the drive fine, then i tried a variety of thingson my own, like remove the sata controller, and the drives, and even the entire controller forcing reboot after reboot but nothing fixed it.

The problem occurs when Partition Magic (even in Windows XP) looks at the paritions and configures it to its own needs. Windows 7 just plain doesn't like it. It's expected though as I have a motherboard where if I upgrade the RAM to 4GB, the nic fails altogether because of the way that Windows 64-Bit 7 addresses the RAM. So these sorts of problems are common and we're gonna see more issues overall popping up.

I did a search on the error message which is how we have all become such great friends. I read through every single post and tried every solution.

The "Microsoft" solution didn't fix it as I couldn't see the drive under List Volumes, however I could select the partition, and see the partition but when i went to assign a drive letter, it told me i had to select a volume. Go Team Microsoft. Thanks for caring about this issue enough to write a Hotfix.. /sarcasm.

Until I got to this solution and it worked. I downloaded the Windows version of MiniTool Partition Wizard and installed it. I didn't bother with the iso, but I have grabbed it now to use as part of my toolkit for repairing other p.c.'s down the track.

I ran the program and then set one partition as active, then set the other one back as active. Applied the changes. Then I applied drive letters as when you set the partiion to active, it seems to reset the drive letter back to nul giving false hope, however I set the drive letter and applied and both drives finally popped up in My Computer and were browsable.

To anyone who has read this post, I strongly suggest sending Norton's Partition Magic to the Abandware Bin and download MiniTool Partition Wizard now!

It's completely compatible with Windows 7's selfish needs.

Special thanks to onpopescu4 for mentioning this. It's the only thing out of all these solutions that actually worked, and now i have a great new util to play with without all the drama of dual booting etc.
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