Unable to initialize a second virtual disk within Windows 2008 or Windows 2008 R2 (2000767)
Symptoms
- After adding virtual disk on Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2, you cannot make disk online
- Windows 2008 and Windows 2008 R2 virtual machine is configured with Virtual Hardware version 7
- You see this error within Windows under Disk Management:
The disk is offline because of policy set by an administrator
Resolution
To resolve this issue:
- Open a command prompt from within the virtual machine.
- To run the Diskpart utility, run the command:
diskpart.exe - To display the SAN policy, run the command:
diskpart> sanSAN Policy: Offline Shared - Change the SAN policy to be online with the command:
diskpart> san policy=OnlineAllDiskpart successfully changed the SAN policy for the current operating system. - To get a summary information about each disk, run the command:
diskpart>list diskDisk Status Size Free Dyn Gpt
--------------- ------------------ ----------- ----------Disk 0 Online 40 GB 0 B
*Disk 1 Offline 60 GB 1024 KB - Select Disk 1 (currently offline disk) with the command:
diskpart>select disk 1Disk 1 is now the selected diskNote: From this point, all diskpart commands apply to this disk.
- Clear the read-only attribute for the Disk 1 with the command:
diskpart>attributes disk clear readonlydisk attributes cleared successfullyTo check that the read-only attribute has been cleared, run the command:
diskpart>attributes disk
current read-only state: no
boot disk: no
pagefile disk: no
hibernation file disk: no
crashdump disk: no
clustered disk: no - Bring Disk 1 online with the command:
diskpart>online diskdiskpart successfully onlined the selected diskThe disk should now be able to be assigned a drive letter and be mounted.
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