System Monitor Physical Disk Counter Does Not Show New Dynamic Volumes (297408)

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP1
Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server SP2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional SP2
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server SP2

This article was previously published under Q297408

SYMPTOMS

When you are monitoring the Physical Disk or Logical Disk counter with System Monitor, new disk volumes may not appear correctly if you have not restarted the computer since creating the volumes. Additionally, System Monitor does not display logical drive letters after you apply Windows 2000 Service Pack 2 (SP2).

CAUSE

New disks volumes are not bound by Disk Manager until a reboot occurs, so Perfdisk does not detect them until you reboot the computer.

RESOLUTION

To resolve this problem, obtain the latest service pack for Windows 2000. For additional information, click the following article number to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

260910 How to Obtain the Latest Windows 2000 Service Pack

The English version of this fix should have the following file attributes or later:

   Date        Time     Version         Size     File name
   ------------------------------------------------------------
   6/4/2001    02:29p   5.0.2195.3671   24,336   Perfdisk.dll

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem in the Microsoft products that are listed at the beginning of this article. This problem was first corrected in Windows 2000 Service Pack 3.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information about how to install Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 hotfixes at the same time, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

249149 Installing Microsoft Windows 2000 and Windows 2000 Hotfixes

Modification Type:	Minor	Last Reviewed:	9/26/2005
Keywords:	kbHotfixServer kbQFE kbbug kbfix kbSysAdmin kbWin2000PreSP3Fix kbWin2000sp3fix KB297408