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.
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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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
Microsoft Answers Support Engineer
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Anonymous
2010-02-24T19:01:28+00:00 On some un-initialized disks disk part and disk manager have a problem initializing a disks as MBR. I seem to remember WinNT 4.x initialially had a simular problem... Thanks for reminding me of the solution...
###NOTE### - Here is the error I had on Win7 with a new un-initialized disk...
Microsoft DiskPart version 6.1.7600
Copyright (C) 1999-2008 Microsoft Corporation.
On computer: ZEUS
DISKPART> select disk 1
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 0 Online 596 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 596 GB 596 GB
DISKPART> convert mbr
DISKPART> create partition primary SIZE=100 OFFSET=1
Virtual Disk Service error: The operation timed out. DiskPart has referenced an object which is not up-to-date. Refresh the object by using theRESCAN command. If the problem persists exit DiskPart, then restart DiskPart or restart the computer.
Here was the fix... This was done on a I can now also create partions with the Disk Management GUI.
DISKPART> select disk 1
DISKPART> list disk
Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
Disk 0 Online 596 GB 0 B *
Disk 1 Online 596 GB 596 GB
DISKPART> clean
DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.
DISKPART> convert gpt
DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to GPT format.
DISKPART> convert mbr
DiskPart successfully converted the selected disk to MBR format.
DISKPART> create partition primary size=100 offset=1
DiskPart succeeded in creating the specified partition.
LIFE IS NOW GOOD! Thanks again...
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Anonymous
2010-05-05T02:19:55+00:00 I haven't been able to find a fix for this issue. However, I am able to access the data using a Fedora live USB image. I'm just about to back up all of the data and reformat the partition.
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Anonymous
2010-05-27T17:57:50+00:00 Thanks Mr Brand Hazard,
I have lost all my data after applying this formula including all memories of my kids videos and all softwares sotred in 500 GB
your formula became a shock for me. I am shocked
prakash