RE: Logical Disk Manager Service Error
From: Don Williams (DonWilliams_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 08/17/04
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Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 13:01:01 -0700
I have a very similar problem. 4 eide drives, 2 SCSI hard drives for Unix, 2
CD drives for Win XP Pro, one firewire external DVD writer, a SCSI tape
drive, etc. I have been trying to install a large SATA drive but can't get
to it to format it. It is indeed recognized by the device manager, which
reports the drive type, S/N and capacity,but it is not seen by any other part
of the system, not even the Western Digital Lifeguard boot diskette.
One thing which might be contributing is that I am unable to get into
Logical Disk Manager Service under Disk Management. It says it's going there
but just waits and waits. Is this a missing file? I noticed an inability to
change drive names some months ago and assume something happend during an
update.
Any idea if there is a file I can re-install to resolve this?
Thanks,
"Mike" wrote:
> I'm afraid the following problem description is quite long, but I want to
> give you as much information as possible.
>
> I have a total of 17 partitions on 4 large harddisks.
> Whenever I start the system, the event log shows entries like this for 12 of
> my 17 partitions. (The ID is of course different for every partition.):
>
> "Event Type: Error
> Event Source: LDMS
> Event Category: None
> Event ID: 3023
> Description:
> The Logical Disk Manager Service failed while registering for device handle
> notifications on device
> \\?\storage#volume#1&30a96598&0&signaturefe4d8bd8offset7e0000length18ffea7e00#{53f5630d-b6bf-11d0-94f2-00a0c91efb8b}.
> Win32 Error: 1066."
>
> All 4 harddisks are affected but every harddisk also contains at least one
> partition that is NOT affected.
>
> Microsoft Help and Support Center has no information about this Event/Error.
> I also didn't find anything about it in the MS knowledge base. I've talked
> to several support people on computer exibitions and they all never heard of
> this.
>
>
> I am not sure, if the these LDMS errors are the cause of my other problems
> of just another symptom. Here are the other, real problems:
>
> - Only the unaffected partitions are available for performance monitoring
> with perfmon.msc.
> I don't care much for performance monitoring but this is a good and easy way
> to see which partitions are affected and which are not.
> I also mention this because I hope it might give someone an idea about the
> cause of these problems. :)
>
> - I can't change the page file settings in any way.
> Windows insists on creating a default size pagefile.sys on the first
> partition that is not affected and has enough free space. There's nothing I
> can do about this. I can't move the page file, I can't disable it. Neither
> setting page file parameters through system properties/advanced nor changing
> the registry values directly has any effect. (Before you ask, the system has
> full control on all partitions.)
> This is the worst of the problems. With 1GB RAM the default page file has a
> size of 1.5GB and it is really annoying to run out of space on a data
> partition because the page file "suddenly" appears on that volume after a
> reboot.
>
> - Creating new partitions becomes a time-consuming effort: I can no longer
> just create, format and use a new partition. First I have to "enable" the
> drive and reboot. Then, when I try to create a new partition, is is created
> but formatting fails because the new partition is "not enabled". I have to
> reboot to "enable" the unformatted partition. After a reboot I can format
> it.
> Windows Disk Management and Partition Magic 8.01 both have this problem.
> (Partition Magic requires a reboot to create new partitions after it
> encountered the error once. That way it's at least possible to create and
> format partitions in one step with only one reboot... )
>
>
> I've searched the web and Usenet for this and found some hints that this
> problem might be caused by Virtual-CD emulators, the "Intel Application
> Performance Enhancer" IDE driver and some security driver (Pace, tpkd.sys) I
> never heard of before. I tried removing my CD emulator which didn't help and
> I don't have any of the other things installed. I never found a real
> solution or any information on the cause of these problems, but quite a lot
> of people seem to have the similar problems with the page file...
>
> For a while I thought this might be related to the driver of the Highpoint
> IDE RAID controller that the disks where connected to, but I switched to a
> Silicon Image SATA controller recently and the problem is still the same.
> (My 3 "old" IDE drives are connected with Silicon Image IDE to SATA
> bridge-adapters, the 4th disk is a native SATA disk from Seagate. All disks
> are used as single drives, I don't use RAID.)
> Both controllers use "SCSI" miniport drivers and the disks are identified as
> SCSI disks so maybe the problem lies there. I doubt that however, as not ALL
> partitions are affected...
>
> My system also uses two optical SCSI drives on a Symbios logic SCSI
> controller, one IDE/ATAPI DVD-Writer connected as master to the first
> channel of the onboard IDE controller and a USB Compact Flash Reader that
> shows up as removable drive. I also have a mobile rack connected as slave on
> the first IDE channel. It makes no difference if there's a disk connected in
> the mobile rack or not.
>
> My mainboard is an older ABIT KG7-RAID; the onboard IDE controller is
> supplied by a VIA southbridge. The onboard Highpoint controller is disabled
> since the SATA controller is installed.
> The Operating System is Windows XP Pro with SP2 final installed.
> All the latest drivers are installed.
>
> I first noticed these errors in the event log about 2 years ago, after I had
> copied several partitions, including the Windows System partition to a new
> harddisk. I don't know if the problem was there before I copied the
> partitions. Back then only 3 or 4 partitions where affected and the page
> file was created on a volume where it didn't matter. Since then I've
> occasionally tried to solve this but never found a solution.
>
> My Windows installation is rather complex with lots of programs, including
> numerous development tools, and lots of "tweaks". Apart from the problems
> mentioned above, the system runs fast and stable.
> Re-installing and re-configuring everything from scratch would take several
> days so I'd rather not do this unless I absolutely have to. :)
>
> I really hope someone can come up with an idea to solve this.
>
> Thanks in advance,
>
> - Mike
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