Guest OM Posted December 5, 2007 Posted December 5, 2007 Hi, I have this interesting problem and hope someone can help me out. I am running Windows 2003 server as the a file server and use an external 160G USB hard disk for data backup. The external drive is formatted using NTFS. The problem is whenever I connected the drive to the server, the OS won't recognize the NTFS partition. It see it as a basic disk with raw file system. However, I can still copy file back and forth to the external drive. Since Windows doesn't recognize the file system, it then doesn't assign a drive letter to it automatically when the drive is connected. I have to manually assign a drive letter every time I connect the drive to the server. This makes the scheduled backup job difficult to run as we rely on the end user to swap the drive without having them to do anything on the server console. I tried different drive and the problem still persist. Does anyone experience this problem before? Keith
Guest lukesh Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 RE: ntfs file system being recognized as raw To resolve this problem, change the startup type of the "removable storage" service from manual to automatic. Then, restart the computer. "OM" wrote: > Hi, > > I have this interesting problem and hope someone can help me out. > > I am running Windows 2003 server as the a file server and use an > external 160G USB hard disk for data backup. The external drive is > formatted using NTFS. > > The problem is whenever I connected the drive to the server, the OS > won't recognize the NTFS partition. It see it as a basic disk with raw > file system. However, I can still copy file back and forth to the > external drive. Since Windows doesn't recognize the file system, it then > doesn't assign a drive letter to it automatically when the drive is > connected. I have to manually assign a drive letter every time I connect > the drive to the server. This makes the scheduled backup job difficult > to run as we rely on the end user to swap the drive without having them > to do anything on the server console. > > I tried different drive and the problem still persist. > > Does anyone experience this problem before? > > Keith >
Guest lukesh Posted December 6, 2007 Posted December 6, 2007 RE: ntfs file system being recognized as raw If that does not work, this should: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822653 "OM" wrote: > Hi, > > I have this interesting problem and hope someone can help me out. > > I am running Windows 2003 server as the a file server and use an > external 160G USB hard disk for data backup. The external drive is > formatted using NTFS. > > The problem is whenever I connected the drive to the server, the OS > won't recognize the NTFS partition. It see it as a basic disk with raw > file system. However, I can still copy file back and forth to the > external drive. Since Windows doesn't recognize the file system, it then > doesn't assign a drive letter to it automatically when the drive is > connected. I have to manually assign a drive letter every time I connect > the drive to the server. This makes the scheduled backup job difficult > to run as we rely on the end user to swap the drive without having them > to do anything on the server console. > > I tried different drive and the problem still persist. > > Does anyone experience this problem before? > > Keith >
Guest OM Posted December 7, 2007 Posted December 7, 2007 Re: ntfs file system being recognized as raw Thanks, I will give that a try. lukesh wrote: > If that does not work, this should: > http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822653
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