Windows 10: Windows 10 - Disk Management stalls with message "Connecting to virtual disk service

Hello,Am trying to get disk management to work but it just hangs on 'Connecting to virtual disk service'.Have checked and both virtual disk and volume shadow copy services are running.Any suggestions?L

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Windows 10 - Disk Management stalls with message "Connecting to virtual disk service"

Disk Management never loads and stalls at "Connecting to virtual disk service."

This may be an issue if you are running SSD and have a SSD manager that suggests turning off a number of services to improve SSD longevity. Or if you have disabled services using a tweak site like Home - Black Viper | BlackViper.Com. Not sure which was the case
for my computer but I'm pretty sure it was one of those two. =)

I've seen two solutions outside of the Microsoft Answers so I'm going to post both of them in a single post. One worked for me but others have had the other issue of the two.

Possible Solution 1

Virtual Disk is disabled. To enable:

• Type services.msc in search or run box and press enter
• Scroll down to Virtual Disk Service. Is it disabled?
• Right click > Properties > Startup type > Manual or Automatic
• You can also press the start button to start the service.
• Check Disk Management to see if your drives show up.

Possible Solution 2 (this worked for me)

Volume Shadow Copy is disabled. To enable:

• Type services.msc in search or run box and press enter
• Scroll down to Volume Shadow Copy Service. Is it disabled?
• Right click > Properties > Startup type > Manual or Automatic
• You can also press the start button to start the service. (I set it to manual and then pressed the start button)
• Check Disk Management to see if your drives show up. (Disk Management showed the drives instantly)

Hope this helps someone.

 

Connecting to Virtual Disk Service

I tried to make a virtual disk. After that my disk management only shows Connecting to Virtual Disk Service and there it hangs.

I'm using a DELL 5430 laptop with windows 10.

I deleted the virtual disk drive but the same message appears,

Help please.

 

Connecting to Virtual Disk Service

Hi,

Please check if the hard drive shows up in device manager.

To do this, follow these steps:

1. Type devmgmt.msc in the start search box and press enter.

2. In device manager check if the hard drive is listed there

I would like you to read the below mentioned thread. I am hopeful that you query will be solved.

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/for...

Please let me know, if that helps.

Kind Regards:

Engr. Malik Yasir