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 drives
Cannot 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
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