Drives not mounting

[Guest News Groupie]

On one of our Windows 2003 Enterprise Servers for some strange reason hard

drives are not automounting and getting drive letters assigned. The internal

drive (80 GB FAT32) and external drive (500 GB FAT32 USB 2.0) are visible

via Disk Management, but no drive letters are assigned and even the

filesystem types are blank.

 

The drives are fine because they automount and work fine under WinXP

(BartPE) and Linux (Ubuntu Live CD).

 

 

Any idea why this is happening and how to resolve it?

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Drives not mounting

 

 

"News Groupie" <newsgroupie@newsgroups.com> wrote in message

news:C3263F4E.1A35%newsgroupie@newsgroups.com...

> On one of our Windows 2003 Enterprise Servers for some strange reason hard

> drives are not automounting and getting drive letters assigned. The

> internal

> drive (80 GB FAT32) and external drive (500 GB FAT32 USB 2.0) are visible

> via Disk Management, but no drive letters are assigned and even the

> filesystem types are blank.

>

> The drives are fine because they automount and work fine under WinXP

> (BartPE) and Linux (Ubuntu Live CD).

>

>

> Any idea why this is happening and how to resolve it?

>

 

How can Windows start up without any drive letters assigned?

I would have thought that having a system drive letter was compulsory.

 

As a starting point I would check the event viewer and the permission

structure of HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.

[Guest News Groupie]

Re: Drives not mounting

 

My bad, C: (boot/system drive) and D: (DVD-ROM drive) are assigned, just

nothing else mounts and assigned when connected.

 

 

 

On 10/1/07 8:34 AM, in article us9B7dCBIHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,

"Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote:

>

> "News Groupie" <newsgroupie@newsgroups.com> wrote in message

> news:C3263F4E.1A35%newsgroupie@newsgroups.com...

>> On one of our Windows 2003 Enterprise Servers for some strange reason hard

>> drives are not automounting and getting drive letters assigned. The

>> internal

>> drive (80 GB FAT32) and external drive (500 GB FAT32 USB 2.0) are visible

>> via Disk Management, but no drive letters are assigned and even the

>> filesystem types are blank.

>>

>> The drives are fine because they automount and work fine under WinXP

>> (BartPE) and Linux (Ubuntu Live CD).

>>

>>

>> Any idea why this is happening and how to resolve it?

>>

>

> How can Windows start up without any drive letters assigned?

> I would have thought that having a system drive letter was compulsory.

>

> As a starting point I would check the event viewer and the permission

> structure of HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.

>

>

[Guest Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Re: Drives not mounting

 

What's the output from the mountvol.exe command

(verbatim, please!)?

 

 

 

"News Groupie" <newsgroupie@newsgroups.com> wrote in message

news:C3268EC7.1A57%newsgroupie@newsgroups.com...

> My bad, C: (boot/system drive) and D: (DVD-ROM drive) are assigned, just

> nothing else mounts and assigned when connected.

>

>

>

> On 10/1/07 8:34 AM, in article us9B7dCBIHA.4200@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl,

> "Pegasus (MVP)" <I.can@fly.com> wrote:

>

>>

>> "News Groupie" <newsgroupie@newsgroups.com> wrote in message

>> news:C3263F4E.1A35%newsgroupie@newsgroups.com...

>>> On one of our Windows 2003 Enterprise Servers for some strange reason

>>> hard

>>> drives are not automounting and getting drive letters assigned. The

>>> internal

>>> drive (80 GB FAT32) and external drive (500 GB FAT32 USB 2.0) are

>>> visible

>>> via Disk Management, but no drive letters are assigned and even the

>>> filesystem types are blank.

>>>

>>> The drives are fine because they automount and work fine under WinXP

>>> (BartPE) and Linux (Ubuntu Live CD).

>>>

>>>

>>> Any idea why this is happening and how to resolve it?

>>>

>>

>> How can Windows start up without any drive letters assigned?

>> I would have thought that having a system drive letter was compulsory.

>>

>> As a starting point I would check the event viewer and the permission

>> structure of HKLM\SYSTEM\MountedDevices.

>>

>>

>