Microsoft KB Archive/274311

= Logical Disk Names Are Displayed in System Monitor Instead of Drive Letters =

Article ID: 274311

Article Last Modified on 1/29/2007

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APPLIES TO


 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
 * Microsoft Windows 2000 Service Pack 1

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This article was previously published under Q274311



SYMPTOMS
After you convert a hard disk from Basic to Dynamic, the volumes on that hard disk are not identified by their drive letter in System Monitor.

The volumes that are displayed in System Monitor appear similar to the following example:

HarddiskDmVolumes\MachineName\Volume#



CAUSE
This problem can occur if the Perfdisk.dll file does not correctly parse the drive letter.



RESOLUTION
To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English-language version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:   Date        Time    Version        Size     File name ---  12/11/2000  05:03p  5.0.2195.3066  23,312   Perfdisk.dll



STATUS
Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.



MORE INFORMATION
For additional information about how to obtain a hotfix for Windows 2000 Datacenter Server, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

265173 The Datacenter Program and Windows 2000 Datacenter Server Product

For additional information about how to install multiple hotfixes with only one reboot, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

296861 Use QChain.exe to Install Multiple Hotfixes with One Reboot

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Additional query words: kbMgmtAdmin

Keywords: kbbug kbfix kbwin2000presp3fix kbqfe kbhardware kbsysadmin kbwin2000sp3fix kbperfmon kbhotfixserver KB274311

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