Registry Entry for the Write Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard

[George Holmes]

Greetings,

I can not find out how to get the "Write Signature and
Upgrade Disk Wizard" popup dialog to come up again. After
I deleted the FAT32 partition of my secondary hard drive
(I want to partition it and format as NTFS), I returned to
Disk Manager and the "Write Signature and Upgrade Disk
Wizard" came up asking me if I wanted to write the disk
signatures AND upgrade to dynamic disk. Well I only
wanted to write the disk signatures and not upgrade to
dynamic disk; I wanted to stick with basic disk. Anyhow,
on this wizard popup I checked "Do not display again", and
clicked close. Well it turns out I would like to have
this popup again now, and I'm not sure how to do it. I
was browsing a Microsoft Knowledge base article on using
the disk manager and here's what i found:

NOTE: Before a new, unpartitioned disk can be used in
Windows 2000 (partitioned or upgraded to Dynamic Disk), it
must contain a disk signature. The first time the Disk
Management snap-in is run after a new hard disk is
installed, the Disk Signature and Upgrade Disk Wizard is
started. If the wizard is cancelled, you may find that
when you attempt to create a partition on the new hard
disk, the Create Partition option is unavailable (appears
dimmed).

If the wizard does not start automatically after you
install a new hard disk and open the Disk Management snap-
in, refer to the following Microsoft Knowledge Base
article for information about how to reactivate the
wizard:
Q232046 Registry Entry for the Write Signature and Upgrade
Disk Wizard

^^^

Well I checked for article "Q232046" to try the registry
entry for this but came up with nothing, file not found in
the Microsoft Knowledge database.

I was hoping you guys might know how to do this or help
out.

Thank you,

[Dave Patrick]

I have the TechNet CD's and can't find the article either. I suspect the subkey is;
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices

But I can't confirm this.

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Regards,

Dave Patrick ....Please no email replies - reply in newsgroup.
Microsoft MVP [Windows 2000 Client/ User Interface]

[Tony Bacos]

I'm having virtually the same problem as Mr. Holmes. My
fingers got ahead of my eyes when installing a new hard
drive, and now the Write Signature wizard is disabled and
I can't get W2K to see my drive. How do I re-activate that
wizard, or is there another way to write the necessary
signature to the disk???

I don't see anything in the subkey that you mentioned that
looks like it applies, but I could just be missing it...

Thanks.

-tony

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