Print Disk Administrator Screen to Record Hard Drive Information

ID: Q164386

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows NT Workstation versions 3.5, 3.51, 4.0
Microsoft Windows NT Server versions 3.5, 3.51, 4.0

SUMMARY

To assist in recovering lost volume sets, extended volume sets, stripe sets, or fault tolerance sets, customers will call and request advice from engineers on how to rebuild their hard drive information. Although Microsoft has tools available that can often aid in rebuilding this information, it is necessary to obtain vital information about the computer, such as the following examples:

In what order were partitions added to the stripe set?

What drives are part of the extended volume set?

What partitions are actually mirrored?

This article describes procedures to create a printout of the Disk Administrators Screen so valuable hard drive configuration information is preserved.

NOTE: It is always preferable to save the disk information to a floppy disk by pointing to configuration and clicking save from the partition menu in Disk Administrator. The procedures in this article are intended to supplement this process and not replace it.

MORE INFORMATION

To create a print out of the disk administrator screen:

Click the Start button, point to Programs, point to Administrative Tools, and click Disk Administrator.

Adjust the screen size so as much disk data is as visible as possible.

Press and hold down the Ctrl key and then press the Print Scrn key, this will place the data on your clipboard.

Open Paintbrush (in Windows NT 3.5 and 3.51) or Paint (Windows NT 4.0).

From the Edit menu, select Paste.

As desired, crop the image.

Print the image to a printer, preferably a color printer, or save the image file to a floppy disk for future reference.

If additional drive data is in disk administrator, scroll the screen and then repeat the procedure to save it.

Additional query words: prodnt raid raid5


Keywords          : nthowto NTSrvWkst 
Version           : WinNT:3.5,3.51,4.0
Platform          : winnt 
Issue type        : kbhowto

Last Reviewed: February 9, 1999