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by maceman

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I have a Windows 2000 server that has (2) SCSI 18.2G drives mirrored. The server starting running slowly all of a sudden. I believe it is because the Logical Disk Administration service keeps hanging on startup. After rebooting, I check the services and it says starting. I have tried coming up in safe mode the same thing happens. Some how this service got set to automatic and I think it should be manual but I can't set it because it is hung. I have checked the drives through the controller utilities and they came back O.K. Does anyone have any suggestions?

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by jon pratt

There's probably other ways of doing this but I usually go to the registry when I need to force an issue. =) You'll need to run regedit or regedt32 and go to HKLM\System\CurrentControlSet\Services\dmadmin and change the "Start" value to 0x3. This will set the service back to manual startup. Good Luck.

by ptchtech

I have seen Disk Management on a member server not able to start when there was very little disk space left. I was able to open it through the computers active directory object from another PC
( right click the computer's AD object and choose manage)

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