Microsoft KB Archive/301373

= Windows 2000 Computers Cannot Remotely Manage IA64 GPT Partitions =

PSS ID Number: 301373

Article Last Modified on 11/4/2003

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The information in this article applies to:


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2

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This article was previously published under Q301373



SYMPTOMS
Some information in the Disk Management tool is missing when you attempt to remotely run administrative tasks on the disk configuration of an IA64 computer from a Windows 2000-based computer. When you view the information in Disk Management remotely from a Windows 2000-based computer, no drive letter assignments are visible, and the EFI partition is not represented.



CAUSE
This problem can occur because Windows 2000-based computers do not understand the GUID partition table (GPT) partitioning scheme.



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article.



MORE INFORMATION
You cannot run administrative tasks on the disk configuration of an IA64 computer from a Windows 2000-based computer. The GPT partitioning scheme is a disk-partitioning scheme that is used by the EFI in Itanium-based computers. GPT supports disks of up to 18 exabytes in size and up to 128 partitions for each disk. Unlike MBR-partitioned disks, data that is critical to platform operations is located in partitions, instead of in unpartitioned or hidden sectors. In addition, GPT-partitioned disks have redundant primary and backup partition tables for improved partition data structure integrity.

Keywords: kbprb kbui KB301373

Technology: kbwin2000Search kbwin2000Serv kbwin2000ServSearch kbwin2000ServSP1 kbwin2000ServSP2

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