Re: Dskprobe2 v.1.0 : seems unusable.

Even though it's been two years exactly, I thought I'd reply since I just
got frustrated with the same thing and hopefully they'll find this post via
some search engine.

The "trick" is that Disk Probe 2 reads 10 Sectors at a minimum. It's pretty
poor interface design that it "helpfully" defaults to 1 sector, which it
then says is invalid. The earlier version of Disk Probe had no problem
reading just one sector.


On Aug 11 2007, 2:12 pm, Sergio <Ser...@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:<!--coloro:blue--><span style="color:blue <!--/coloro-->
> Since the release ofWindowsServer 2003, I never have been able to get some
> result by usingDskprobe2 v.10, the one included in WS2003 Support Tools.
> Up to the present, with the last release of Support Tools for WS2003R2
> SP2,Dskprobe.exe has never been changed, I noted.
>
> Every time I tried to use it on IDE or SATA disks,dskprobealways gave me
> the same error conditionhysical Volumes-> Open Handle -> Read Sectors ,
> no matter which starting
> sector I choose, I always get the popup error "The Parameter is incorrect"
> and the requested operation fails.
>
> Am I missing some trick ?
>
> I wonder that the version of Dskprobe2 released with WS2003 SP2 Support
> Tools still is "UI Preview 1.0" dated 1999 !!
>
> Anybody can help me ?
> Thanks in advance.
>
> Sergio<!--colorc--><!--/colorc-->