Disk commands

I'm looking for some command line commands to do the following.
1. See what disks are attached to the system.
2. How to navigate to an external disk. Do you need to mount it first and if so, how?
3. How to tell how a disk has been formatted as well as how the partitions have been formatted.

MrHoffman wrote:
Rather than reversing our way back to your question, can you provide some information on what problem(s) or questions you might be looking to address? That might let us run the question forward.
Well, I've done this before with other posts and have been chastised for giving too much detail. So, I figured I start with some basic questions and work from there. However, if you feel the details are necessary (and you think I'm working backwards with my questions), here goes.
Ok, this is my goal...
I recently purchased a new external HD with the intention of addressing a couple of issues and problems. First, I wanted the ability to run backups of both my iMac and my MacBook. Currently, I've simply been running backups of the laptop to my iMac. Unfortunately, this filled up my iMac within a week of starting Time Machine (this problem was already addressed in another post and explained to me). So, I turned it off and removed the rather large backup file (which, BTW, took over 2 days to empty the trash). Secondly, my MacBook is dangerously full (one third of which consists of my wife's iPhoto library (> 45GB)), and I need to store off some data to free up the disk.
So, with that said, my plan is to do the following.
1. Attach an external HD to my Airport extreme and access it from both computers.
2. Create 3 partitions (one for backups from the Macbook, one for backups from the iMac, and one for storing common data to be accessed by both systems).
3. Use the common data partition on the new HD for accessing a common iPhoto library as well as other libraries (such as iTunes, etc) and data/documents. Yes, I realize you cannot access the same library from multiple computers at the same time.
4. Taking step #3 one step further; since all common data will be located on the external HD (and accessed directly from the two computers), use the disk space on the individual computers for keeping backups of the common data on the external HD. This will not be done using Time Machine since that is primarily for backing up your entire system in case of a catastrophic failure. It will be done with some shell scripts that will keep the common data in sync (via cron jobs utilizing rsync, etc.).
Now, when I first got the external HD, I plugged it into the Airport Extreme via USB. Although AE could see the disk, my iMac could not. So, I remembered reading that the disk may need to be formatted for the Mac. With that in mind, I wanted to know exactly how the disk was currently formatted. So, I plugged it directly into the iMac (via USB), and then needed some commands to see exactly what the disk looked like. This was the reason for my initial questions. I figured that if I bombarded everyone with a bunch of details, I may never get any answers. Also, I'm the kind of person that likes to get as much detail as possible before I dive in and start doing things like reformatting HD's (which is irreversible). Besides, if my plan doesn't work, I still want the option of returning the unit and getting my money back (which I'm not so sure I can do once I reformat it). Anyway, I guess I just wanted to start off with some simple questions and work from there.
Do you think this plan is achievable, or do you have any suggestions as to what may be a better way to go? Thanks for your input.

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Windows cannot be installed to this disk... but HDD works

Hi All, I have an issue with the internal SATA HDD in my Pavilion dm4t laptop (PR #: XQ1313AAR). The drive is working, when connecting via external USB enclosure is recognized by the PC, can read/write data, format partitions etc… When plugged in as internal HDD of the laptop, BIOS does not recognize it. When booting from Windows Installation Disk, the drive (and its partitions) are recognized, but I get the following message when trying to select a partition to proceed with Windows install: Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer’s hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk’s controller is enabled in the computer’s BIOS menu. Used external USB enclosure again, connected to a working PC and using TestDisk, I deleted the partition table (by zero writing it several times), then created a new MBR. When connecting back as internal drive, it is now recognized by BIOS and in the Windows installation screen, I can actually select a partition on the drive to install Windows on; the installation actually runs, but as soon as I get to the point of having to restart the PC during the installation process, upon restart the drive is not recognized anymore… When I remove it, and repeat the same steps with TestDisk, it once again works, can start Windows installation, but it fails upon restart. I have already read numerous forums on the topic, have tried various drive utilities. I also saw in one of the forums a suggestion to enable AHCI for the SATA controller, but the laptop BIOS is extremely limited and does not have that option.Please help!!! Have been without a working laptop for several weeks and is driving me crazy. Saving any data on the drive is not needed – I have recovered all data from it that I need. So my only objective is to restore the harddrive to fully working state and be able to install OS on it (Windows 7, 64-bit)! Thanks in advance for any help!

I've tried many things already, spend countless hours on this and still no luck What seems to get me at least a step closer:- Boot using Windows 7 Install DVD-Go to Repair Computer and open Command Prompt-Run DiskPart, Clean the disk-After restart am able to create partitions on the disk through Windows 7 Installation and install Windows-As a last step of Windows install, it reboots the system, and upon reboot drive is not recognized - goes again into booting from DVD and starting Windows installation from scratch... When following the installation steps, this time it does not allow to go through with the installation stating that "Windows cannot be installed to this disk. This computer's hardware may not support booting to this disk. Ensure that the disk's controller is enabled in the computer's BIOS menu." When in diskpart and using Detail Disk command, I see that disk is NOT bootable. Could that be causing the issue and how can it be solved?

Locked Install Disk, Fails to Erase or Partition

For starters, I was having issues with the logic board/graphics of my 2007 Macbook Pro, (Model # A1226), currently running Mac OS X 10.8, (Mountain Lion). I managed to find a replacement logic board which I successfully installed. The laptop ran much smoother on OS X 10.7 (Lion) and that's what I've been trying to downgrade to, and that's where my problem continues.
I've got a downloaded install image on a usb stick, the file is "InstallESD.dmg". At some point, I was having issues with every option and did a recovery/restore of the hard drive from the usb stick. Surprisingly, at startup it brings me to the "Mac OS X Utilities" options which shows Lion being available as an install option, however after that point of selecting it, I get the message that the disk is locked. That is most likely because I restored the hard drive from the usb drive containing the bootable installer.
Whenever I try to partition or erase the drive, I get a "Fail to Erase" or "Partition Fail" message through Disk Utility. Even if I do a Cmd + R and try to reboot from the Recovery Disk for 10.8.5, (putting me back into Mountain Lion), I still get a "Locked Install Disk" message leaving me nowhere but stuck.
Ideally, I'd like to get back to Lion. I'm fine with erasing the hard drive, I have all my necessary files backed up, just not through Time Machine. I've also got what I thought was the bootable copy of Lion on the USB drive, but when I try to boot from there, the laptop is in a constant loading cycle with the apple logo replaced by one of those "no" symbols, (circles with the diagonal line), so I assume I didn't set it up correctly as a boot disk.

I think our problem is also hardware failure although without re-imaging a working surface pro 3 I can't be sure.
I tried what imfusio suggested in this thread.
https://social.technet.microsoft.com/Forums/en-US/d31384bc-4e96-4a5b-a400-637bd6006d81/failure-5456-unable-to-determine-destination-disk-partition-and-or-drive-surface-pro-3?forum=mdt
Unfortunately the deployment failed with the same ZTI Error - Unhandled error returned by ZTIDISKPART:
Object required (424)
I then rebooted into WinPE and ran diskpart, I could see the two volumes (EFI and OSDisk). I then tried to format the OS disk volume using diskpart. I got a paramater is incorrect error and the disk was no longer visible with a 'list disk' command. So it's
like the format is putting the disk offline. I'm going to try restore one of these surfaces, apply all firmware updates then re-image. If that doesn't work I'm out of ideas.

WS2008 R2 - Invalid dynamic disk

I have a software RAID5 array in Windows Server 2008 R2. 5x4TB drives. After clean shutdown all the disks in disk management are listed as invalid. When I try to reactivate any of them I get this error message: This operation is not allowed
on the invalid disk pack.
What can I do? I've searched high and low and can't find a solution.

Hi,
Based on research, it seems a bug that Dynamic disk(s) comes back as INVALID after taking offline, or following reboot.
This bug surfaces when the size of a record in the LDM matches exactly the size of a block on disk. In this situation, volmgrx incorrectly flags the record as incomplete. After reading the whole database, volmgrx will clean all incomplete records. That’s why
we end up with an empty volume record and with a plex that’s not referenced by a volume.
In this repro, we have a record for a volume that’s bigger than 2TB, has a 3 digit number and has no drive letter (which means attributes are stored in the record). Because of this, the record size was exactly 68 bytes, which is the size available in the block
after all the headers.
If the effected Windows 2008 R2 server is Non-DPM server, we must re-create the volumes manually and restore from backup.
If the server is a DPM 2007 server, all of the dynamic disks in the DPM storage pool will be inaccessible. To avoid having to rebuild the DPM server from scratch, you can use the following procedure to clean (wipe out) the dynamic disks and recreate the DPM
replica and recovery point volumes while maintaining the rest of the DPM 2007 configuration.
WARNING: This procedure is non-reversible, and will result in ALL replica and recovery point volumes to be permanently lost. Verify with the customer that he has a >2TB volume configured before proceeding.
1) Run diskpart.exe - and issue a "list disk" command - and see which disks show the status of INVALID
2) Select one invalid disk at a time and issue a CLEAN command to wipe it out and make it a RAW disk again.
3) Select one disk at a time and convert to GPT, then Dynamic.
4) Exit diskpart.exe
5)Now add the same disks to the DPM storage pool under the management tab - disk tab.
6) From command prompt - run the following command to remake the DPM volumes - this may take hours...
dpmsync -reallocatereplica
7) AFTER Dpmsync completes, re-run diskpart.exe and save the output of the "list volume" command.
NOTE: Make the DOS window so if has a height of 9999 before running list volume - then copy the contents of the window to notepad.
8) Search the output of list volume and locate any volumes are larger than 2000 GB (2TB) - note the mountpoint path.
9) From command prompt - run mountvol.exe >mountvol.txt - then open the mountpoint.txt using notepad. Search for the path for the >2GB volumes to get the volume {Guid}
10) Use mountvol.exe to assign a drive letter to that volume.
mountvol E: \\?\Volume{bf14e9ca-d929-11dd-8f76-806e6f6e6963}
11) Repeat steps 7-9 for ANY and ALL volumes that have a volume numbers above 99, and exceed the 2TB size.
It is now safe to reboot and not experience the dynamic Invalid status for the dynamic disks. If the customer creates any more dynamic volumes that exceed 2TB - they MUST assign a drive letter or they will experience the same issue.
12) Run Consistency checks for all the data sources to get the DPM server back into a consistent state and continue protectecting the production servers.
I hope this helps.
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