Mount SAN volume on another server

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Hi,

We recently had a W2K cluster shared volume on a SAN require to have chkdsk
run on it. We detached the LUN and reallocated it to another (standalone)
server (running W2K3) but although the server could see the new disk it
appeared as unreadable in disk management. Is this because of the NTFS
differences between W2K and W2K3. I had imaged W2K3 would recognize and
mount the W2K volume.

TIA,

Geejay
 
Re: Mount SAN volume on another server

Did it actually show up "Unreadable" in disk management or just show up
unmounted? In 2003 enterprise and datacenter versions, Windows will not
automatically mount a newly added disk. You just need to manually assign a
drive letter and then you should be able to access the disk.

See the following KB for more details.

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822653

Regards,
John

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"gjb" <gjb@ntl.com> wrote in message
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> Hi,
>
> We recently had a W2K cluster shared volume on a SAN require to have
chkdsk
> run on it. We detached the LUN and reallocated it to another (standalone)
> server (running W2K3) but although the server could see the new disk it
> appeared as unreadable in disk management. Is this because of the NTFS
> differences between W2K and W2K3. I had imaged W2K3 would recognize and
> mount the W2K volume.
>
> TIA,
>
> Geejay
>
>
 
Re: Mount SAN volume on another server

It showed up as "unreadable" and the right-click option to assign a drive
letter wasn't available.


"John Toner [MVP]" <jtoner@DIE.SPAM.DIE.mvps.org> wrote in message
news:OECxTvNoIHA.3556@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Did it actually show up "Unreadable" in disk management or just show up
> unmounted? In 2003 enterprise and datacenter versions, Windows will not
> automatically mount a newly added disk. You just need to manually assign a
> drive letter and then you should be able to access the disk.
>
> See the following KB for more details.
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/kb/822653
>
> Regards,
> John
>
> Visit my blog: http://msmvps.com/blogs/jtoner
>
> "gjb" <gjb@ntl.com> wrote in message
> news:OESB2lJoIHA.3652@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...
>> Hi,
>>
>> We recently had a W2K cluster shared volume on a SAN require to have
> chkdsk
>> run on it. We detached the LUN and reallocated it to another (standalone)
>> server (running W2K3) but although the server could see the new disk it
>> appeared as unreadable in disk management. Is this because of the NTFS
>> differences between W2K and W2K3. I had imaged W2K3 would recognize and
>> mount the W2K volume.
>>
>> TIA,
>>
>> Geejay
>>
>>
>
>
 
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