Disk Management Problem

[Wijono]

I am facing a tough problem with one of the PC running WinXP SP2.

When I start the “Disk Management” snap-in, I got something that is mostly empty as in the attached picture <Disk-Management.jpg>. When I right-click one of the drive, the drop-down menu is also empty as shown in the picture.

What could be wrong? I have run SFC /SCANNOW to no avail. Help …. Please!! Any hint and help to solve that problem will be highly appreciated.

Edited August 18, 2006 by Wijono

[Wijono]

With intensive effort I instinctively found the problem myself!!

It was the system file dmdskres.dll that was missing in the folder C:\WINNT\System32. It might have been erased by AntiVirus program.

What made me disappointed is the fact that SFC /SCANNOW did not bring it back. Furthermore, when I started diskmgmt.msc it did not report that dmdskres.dll file is missing, it simply starts but with many parts empty as depicted in my previous post.

What a nightmare!!