Книга: Windows Server 2012 R2 Storage, Security, & Networking Pocket Consultant

Installing and checking for a new drive

Installing and checking for a new drive

Hot swapping is a feature that allows you to remove internal devices without shutting off the computer. Typically, hot-swappable internal drives are installed and removed from the front of the computer. If your computer supports hot swapping of internal drives, you can install drives without having to shut down. After you have installed a new drive, open Disk Management, and then choose Rescan Disks from the Action menu. New disks that are found are added with the appropriate disk type. If a disk that you’ve added isn’t found, restart the computer.

If the computer doesn’t support hot swapping of internal drives, you must turn the computer off and then install the new drives. Then you can scan for new disks as described previously. If you are working with new disks that have not been initialized — meaning they don’t have disk signatures Disk Management will start the Initialize Disk dialog box as soon it starts up and detects the new disks.

You can initialize the disks by following these steps:

1. Each disk you install needs to be initialized. Select the disk or disks you installed.

2. Disks can use either the MBR or GPT partition style. Select the partition style you want to use for the disk or disks you are initializing.

3. Tap or click OK. If you elected to initialize disks, Windows writes a disk signature to the disks and initializes the disks with the basic disk type.

If you don’t want to use the Initialize Disk dialog box, you can close it and use Disk Management instead to view and work with the disk. In the Disk List view, the disk is marked with a red downward-pointing arrow icon, the disk’s type is listed as Unknown, and the disk’s status is listed as Not Initialized. Press and hold or right-click the disk’s icon and select Online. Press and hold or right-click the disk’s icon again, and select Initialize Disk. You can then initialize the disk as discussed previously.

NOTE At an elevated, administrator Windows PowerShell prompt, you can use Get-Disk to list available disks and Initialize-Disk to initialize new disks.

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