Windows 10: Disk Management Hangs

Hi, so the problem is I was shrinking my drive to create another partition. Then I accidentally exit disk management, and when Iied to open it again it just says "Connecting to Virtual Disk Service". So then I tried to cancel the shrinking process of the drive in "Defragment and Optimize Drives", But it is still cancelling, it's been an hour now. Help would be appreciated, thanks.

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Disk management console view is not up-to-date

i dont know how to fix your disk management, but i can fix your partition problems...




open up Command Prompt with admin rights. (Right click, run as admin)


enter in
DISKPART
list disk

then find the Disk number for your Raid array... lets call it number 7 ( you can tell what disk is what by the total size)
type in

Select Disk 7
List Partition (will give you a list of all the partitions..)
Select Partition 1 (im assuming you only have 1 partition on Disk 7) repeat this step if you have more partitions.
ASSIGN


that should get the array up and running ready to use.


EDITED.

any problems, post back ^^


Still EDITING *Stick Out Tongue

side question, have you tried restarting the PC?

 

Computer Management/Disk Management hangs on disconnecting USB drives

I unplug the disks immediately, because their policy is set (by default) to
Quick removal. If I've configured them for Better performance then I would perform the formal procedure of software eject prior to unplug. The only storage device that does not need a formal software eject is the SD card; it will gracefully notice
the card is gone and remove the disk entry accordingly.

I'm unsure why option 1 is suggested. Does it mean that Computer Management with all it variety of console sections are causing it to hang instead of Disk Management itself? For that matter, even when running the pure diskmgmt.dsc it will still hang - as
expected in this case - since it's pretty obvious it's Disk Management that's stumbling here.

And indeed if I perform the formal eject before unplugging, Computer Management/Disk Management has a much better chance of survival and dynamically update the disk entry list.

UPDATE: Actually, no. Disk Management can hang just as much even with software eject.

So for now I will go through the extra hassle of ejecting regardless of removal policy. But I am still confused and curious over how Disk Management handles such events, and why it's so susceptible to storage devices that by nature of external
USB connections, can get plugged out (at idle activity) really quick, especially more so with laptops on the move.

 

Disk Management

Hi Keith,

Thanks for providing the detail that was requested previously. Since the disk management screen that you saw is showing greyed out options, we suggest that you follow the steps below to change the partition type of your internal drive:

• Open Disk Management then right click the partition on the disk you want to covert and select Delete Volume.
• Once you complete the process you will see the whole disk shown as two separate unallocated spaces. Right-click the disk and select Convert to GPT disk.

After the conversion, you will be able to use the whole disk and then you can create new separate partitions.

We look forward to your response to our queries.