User`s guide

whether you are importing all the required disks of the disk group. When importing all the

required disks, all their volumes have the Healthy status. Statuses other than Healthy indicate

that not all of the disks were imported.

For more information on volume statuses please refer to the following Microsoft article:

http ://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/cc771775.aspx

2. Click OK to add the pending foreign disks importing operation.

The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been

performed.

To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 24). Exiting the program without

committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them.

7.10 Removing a missing disk

The Missing status occurs on a dynamic disk when the disk has been corrupted, turned off, or

disconnected. The Logical Disk Manager (LDM) database keeps information about the missing disk

because such disk might contain parts of dynamic volumes, such as mirrored volumes, that can be

repaired.

If the disk can be reconnected or turned on, all you need to recover its functionality is to reactivate

the disk. For information on how to bring a disk that is offline and missing back online, please refer to

the following Microsoft knowledge base article:

http

://technet.microsoft.com/en-

us/library/cc732026.aspx

If the missing disk cannot be reactivated, or you would like to completely delete this disk from disk

group, you can remove the disk from the LDM database.

Before removing a missing disk you have to delete (p. 42) all the volumes on the disk. However, if the disk

contains any mirrored volumes, you can save them using the Remove mirror (p. 47) operation, instead of

deleting the entire volume.

To remove a missing dynamic disk

1. Right-click the disk with the Missing status, and then click Remove missing disk.

2. Click OK to add the pending disk removal operation.

The results of the pending operation are immediately displayed as if the operation had been

performed.

To perform the pending operation you will have to commit it (p. 24). Exiting the program without

committing the pending operations will effectively cancel them.

7.11 Cleaning up a disk

This operation erases all volumes and data on a disk, making it not initialized. All volumes, even those

spanning across other disks, are erased from the disks and the space that was occupied by these

volumes becomes unallocated space. To be able to use the cleared up disk, you need to initialize (p.

54) it once again.

To clean up a disk

1. Right-click the disk you need to clean up, and then click Clean up disk.

2. Click OK to add the pending disk clean up operation.