All Available Drive Letters Are Assigned to Unformatted Hard Disks
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 307079 - If you set up
multiple hard disks on a computer that runs Windows XP, and you do
not format the hard disks or assign drive letters to the hard
disks, Disk Management may assign drive letters to the hard disks.
Depending on the number of unformatted that are on the computer,
Disk Management may assign all of the available drive letters to
the unformatted hard disks. If the number of unformatted hard
disks exceeds the number of available drive letters, Disk
Management does not assign drive letters to the unformatted hard
drivesCannot View NTFS Logical Drive After Using Fdisk
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 310359 - If you start Windows XP in a dual-boot environment with Windows 95 or Windows 98, use the Fdisk
tool to delete a logical drive using the File Allocation Table
(FAT) file system, and then restart Windows XP, you may no
longer see logical drives within the Logical Disk Manager in
Windows XP.
Disk Defragmenter Is Not Displayed in the Most Frequently Used List
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 279770 - In Microsoft Windows XP, the Disk Defragmenter utility (Defrag.exe) is not displayed in the Most Frequently Used (MFU) list on the
Start menu even if it is used often.
Disk Quota Default Setting Prevents Logon Request
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 288750 - When you attempt to
log on to your computer, you may receive the following error
message:
Error During Disk Copy Prevents Completion of Task
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 291710 - During a disk
copy operation you may receive one of the following error
messages Copy Disk Windows cannot read the disk you are copying
from. Make sure it is not damaged or already in use. or Copy
Disk Windows cannot write to the destination disk....
Error
Message: Windows Could Not Start Because of a Computer Disk
Hardware Configuration Problem
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 314477 - When you
attempt to start Windows XP, you may receive one of the
following error messages:
Fault-Tolerant RAID Volumes or Volume Sets Are Displayed as "Failed" After You Install Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 303246 - After you upgrade to
Windows XP from Windows NT 4.0, previous fault-tolerant
Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks (RAID) volumes or volume
sets may be listed in the Disk Management tool as "Failed".
These "Failed" disks have drive letters, but you cannot access
them.
Hard Disks Do Not Turn Off After Your Computer Has Been Idle
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 313300 - When your Windows
XP-based computer has been idle for an amount of time that is
sufficient to make your hard disk turn off, your hard disk may
not turn off. For example, even though your Turn off hard disk
setting is set to 3 minutes, your hard disk
Turn
off hard disk setting is set to 3
minutes, your hard disk might not turn off until your computer
has been on and idle for 15 to 20 minutes
Hard Disk May Become Corrupted When Entering Standby or
Hibernation
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article 331958 - The flush cache
command is not issued to a large hard disk that has 48-bit
logical block addressing (LBA) enabled. Therefore, the hard disk
may become corrupted when you enter either standby or
hibernation.
Hard Disk Performance Is Slower Than You Expect
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 308219 - After you install
Microsoft Windows XP, hard disk performance may be slower than
you expect. NOTE: Hard disk performance may be even slower when
your computer performs many small hard disk read/write
operations.
Hard Disk Problems Cause Error Messages When You Start Your
Computer
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 812446 - When you start your
computer, you may receive an error message that is similar to
the following: Hard disk drive failure
When you start your computer from a Microsoft Windows 98
Startup disk, and then try to use the Fdisk.exe program to view
partition information, you may receive the following error
message: No fixed disk present
Setup Requires Format of Initial Partition If You Install to a
Subsequent Partition on a Hard Disk
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 283260 - This article
describes the behavior of an installation to a partition which
is unformatted and is not the first partition on the hard disk.
The Computer Does Not Start After You Change the Active Partition by Using the Disk Management Tool
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 315261 - After you use the
Windows Disk Management snap-in tool to mark your primary
partition as active, the computer may not start, and you may
receive the following error message: NTLDR is missing. Press
Ctrl+Alt+Del to restart.
Windows XP Does Not Recognize All Available Disk Space
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 316505 - Windows XP may not
recognize all of your available disk space. For example, you may
have a hard disk with a capacity of more than 30 gigabytes (GB),
but according to the Disk Management utility or Windows
Explorer, you have only 2 GB of disk space.
You Cannot Format 720 KB Floppy Disks in Windows XP
Microsoft Knowledge Base Article: 302113 - The option to format
a floppy disk to the capacity of 720 kilobytes (KB) is missing
in the Format 3 1/2 Floppy dialog box. Attempting to format a
floppy disk to a capacity of 720 KB by using the format
command-line utility produces the following...
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