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Kurt Tomicich
2011/06/15
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External drives are detected but aren't mounted
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Troubleshooting
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2011/06/15
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2011/06/15
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Kurt Tomicich
When an external drive is plugged in, it is detected and shows up in Drive Manager, but a drive letter is not automatically assigned. This solution worked for Server 2003 and also for Windows 7:
From an administrator command prompt, type:
mountvol /E
Mountvol /?
Creates, deletes, or lists a volume mount point.
MOUNTVOL [drive:]path VolumeName
MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /D
MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /L
MOUNTVOL [drive:]path /P
MOUNTVOL /R
MOUNTVOL /N
MOUNTVOL /E
path Specifies the existing NTFS directory where the mount point will reside.
VolumeName Specifies the volume name that is the target of the mount point.
/D Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory.
/L Lists the mounted volume name for the specified directory.
/P Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory, dismounts the volume, and makes the volume not mountable.
You can make the volume mountable again by creating a volume mount point.
/R Removes volume mount point directories and registry settings for volumes that are no longer in the system.
/N Disables automatic mounting of new volumes.
/E Re-enables automatic mounting of new volumes.
Possible values for VolumeName along with current mount points are:
<system specific>
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