Posts Tagged ‘diskpart’
I’ve used both CDs personally countless times and can’t recommend them enough. If you’re just looking to reset your administrator password to blank or need to move data off the system’s hard disk these CDs will help greatly. I’m always forgetting the acronyms so I decided to write them down for once. I typically carry UBCD w/ me at all times.
Couple quick links to the prospective websites…
So I’m playing around w/ a SAN for home use. We’ve virtualized about 80% of our infrastructure at work but most of our VM hosts are standalone with local storage only. So, I’m spending a lot of time at home recently building a SAN on OpenSUSE 11.3 with high hopes of getting iSCSI to play nice. Part of this equation is getting another box to run vCenter Server which will need access to the iSCSI LUNs the VM hosts see.
Hence the title. Windows has a utility called Diskpart.exe which will allow you to turn off auto mount BEFORE you connect your Windows’ iSCSI initiator to your iSCSI target.
Open up a command prompt and type:
C:\Users\yournamehere>diskpart
Once you’re in the diskpart tool, type ‘automount’.
DISKPART> automount
Automatic mounting of new volumes enabled.
Then finally, ‘automount disable’.
DISKPART> automount disable
Automatic mounting of new volumes disabled.
This will keep your OS from trying to mount your iSCSI volume and mess with your VMFS partition!
Keep in mind, this means any new volumes your system sees will need to be mounted manually w/in the disk partitioning tool.
While you’re in there, type just a ‘?’ and see the whole list of commands you can play with. See the Microsoft KB article below for a more thorough introduction!