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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2010-07-22T12:27:20+00:00

its seems that in order to fix this problem.... open divice manager locate the drive under disk drives, uninstall the drive, unplug it, plug it back in and it will reinstall the drivers and the drive should now work.

Usnure as to why this has to be done on a plug and play device and why windows 7 couldnt istall the correct driver in the first place but it worked for me. goodluck
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Anonymous

2010-06-28T21:08:23+00:00

My problem was that I had an exteral 2.5" HD enclosure with a WD Scorpio Blue 500GB HD inside, and when I plugged it into my Win7 Ultimate 32-bit machine it would install Serial-to-ATA bridge drivers but the drive would not show up. I went into Disk Manager and it would not allow me to assign a drive letter. I simply right-clicked on the disk label on the very left side of the screen (mine said Disk 3, Basic, 465.76GB, Online), clicked on 'properties' and then clicked the Driver tab. I clicked the Uninstall button and it removed the drivers. I closed out of that screen and clicked the Action label at the top of the Disk Manager window and chose Rescan Disks. It found the HD and installed different drivers and the AutoPlay screen came up asking me how I wanted to open the files in the HD. I was very happy because it was quite aggravating. Hope this helps!

torgojones
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Anonymous

2010-05-27T19:20:32+00:00

This is why we recommend people always ASK QUESTIONS IN NEW THREADS

You should have read what he said!

<quote>

DISKPART> clean

DiskPart succeeded in cleaning the disk.

</quote>

i.e. the disk is now empty!

However - so long as you do not use the PC, all may not be lost.

You can try installing the hard drive as a slave in another PC and using data recovery software to recover your pictures, or try a direct recovery using a tool like BootItNG fromwww.bootitng.com), or Recuva (from www.piriform.com)

If you're prepared for a marathon, email me at ngs AT crashfixpc.co.uk (adjust the obvious to get a working email address), otherwise, your best bet may be to take it to a local small computer shop, and ask them how much it might cost.

If you've already written to the drive, then you will probaby only recover a small amount of data - but you could try using Recuva -

Noel Paton | Nil Carborundum Illegitemi | CrashFixPC
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