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I going through the all-in-one cert exam guide (Watson and Bersinic) and having a heck of time with Chapter 33. First, how do you get ASM to discover the disks? I have tried asmtool (and asmtoolg) to stamp the disks (no problem), but no matter what diskstring I use, the disks are never discovered. Any ideas?
FYI - these are Vista machines running MS VM with an XP slice (again, NO LINUX! =). Unfortunately. Anyway, i am not a windows guy, and I suspect that the user account does not have access to the unformatted but partitioned disk slices. In unix land, we would grant owner privs to the os_dba account. Is there a similar story for Windows? The windows user account does have admin privs, but I am not sure how that translates into "ownership" per se.
Any and all advice would be appreciated!
TIA,

I have followed the book up to a point - apparently, many things were left out. I have formatted a logical partition with two extended partitions, labaled E: and F:. The book suggests that the diskstring should be '\\.\*:'. However, when I set that I get "ORA-15031      disk specification '\\.\*:' matches no disks". This is true even if I use asmtoolg and stamp the disks as ORCLDISKDATA01 and ORCLDISKDATA02. I then tried ORCL* and *: which do not generate errors, but also do not find any disks. I even tried the device name reported via asmtool, \Device\Harddisk1\Partition1. No luck.

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