drive offline

About this tag
The tag 'drive offline' covers scenarios where users manually take a storage drive offline in Windows, often to troubleshoot boot errors or high disk activity. In Hyper-V, taking a physical drive offline in Disk Manager can cause VM boot failures when the drive is attached as a SCSI device, even though the VM boots fine without it. In other cases, users take a drive offline to stop it from showing 100% active time in Resource Monitor, possibly due to antivirus software constantly accessing the drive. The tag reflects practical troubleshooting steps involving offline/online drive states in Windows Disk Management.
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    Hyper-V Virtual Machine - Boot Errors

    Greetings, I have finally got a VM to boot to a 'SecureRescueCD' in order to repair my Western Digital MyCloud 6TB drive. I have the 6TB plugged into a USB port, and recognized within Disk Manager. As part of the procedure, I have taken the Drive 'Offline' If I boot the VM without the 6TB...
    • Toni Carrera
    • Thread
    • boot issues checkpoint updates disk management drive offline hyper-v scsi securerescuecd storage issues usb virtual machine vm boot failure western digital
    • Replies: 4
    • Forum: Windows Server Forums
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    Windows 7 Resource Monitor has one of my Hds always at 100% active

    I keep putting the drive offline because im wary of having it always active. It may have something to do with avast antivirus because thats the image thats listed next to the files in those drives. I checked with avast and it doesnt appear to be running any scans and theres no way I can find...
    • Eric B
    • Thread
    • 100% activity antivirus disk performance drive activity drive offline feedback hard drive resource monitor scanning issues troubleshooting
    • Replies: 11
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support