Cannot access Disk Management

Question

Hi, I wanted to change the drive letters on my cd drives to d and e versus e and f. I went to the microsoft knowledge base and was advised to go to admin tools, computermanagement, disk management. I have tried various ways to access this. First, I started all the services, added dmremote.exe and dmadmin.exe to the exceptions on the firewall, opened rpc port 135. After all this I still get rpc server not available and unable to connect to logical disk manager. I don't really need to change the letters if it is going to be this big of a problem, but why can I not access? Also, I used a tweak diskmgmt.reg to restore my logical disk manager if it happened to not be there, I do not know if it was or not. Dimension 3000, xp pro, ie8. Any suggestions? Thanks, Liz.

liz1954 · Accepted Answer

1. Go to Start and Run
2. Type in DCOMCNFG
3. Click on Component Services
4. Click on Computers
5. In Computers, right click My Computer
6. Choose Properties
7. Go the Default Properties tab
8. Check the "Enable DCOM" tab
9. Go to the Default Protocols tab
10. Click Add
11. By the Protocol Sequence move the down arrow to Tunneling TCP/IP
12. Click OK
13. Click MoveUp button until Tunneling is at the top of the list
14. Now you may select SPX and Remove
15. Click OK or close the program out
16. Restart the computer

Jack Shack, Hi, yes I had tried from the control panel, but I could not still access the disk management, after starting everything and getting an rpc server is not available error msg, I finally found the fix above. I was able to access disk manager from the control panel after this. But thank you anyway! Liz.

jackshack · Answer

Is there a reason you didn't use the control panel?  Folks who do this frequently know the snap-in command to use in the Run box, but I just open the control panel, Performance and Maintenance, Admin Tools, Computer Management, Storage, and finally, Disk Management.  Don't ask me why I remember this better than a simple command!

jackshack · Answer

Excellent post! Thanks for letting us know; looking back at your original post I had gotten the impression somehow that you hadn't made it all the way through the control panel sequence.

Best of luck to you!

liz1954 · Answer

JackShack, Thank you, too. Liz.

Windows General

Cannot access Disk Management

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