Hard Disk Emulation error due to SAN Policy conflict
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Across various machines running Windows 8 and above, I have come across an issue where I can only mount a volume or disk under basic emulation or, at most, flagged as a removable drive. However, if I flag the drive for Hard Disk Emulation (Slower) and attempt to mount the drive—regardless of an image being used or a clean slate—an error occurs, the disk does not mount, and an error code is presented on my screen. What I have discovered while watching the mounting process through Windows 10 is a SAN Policy conflict: when mounting begins, the disk remains in an offline state.
My solution, which I have now done to all of my machines and has resolved the issue:
- Run an elevated command and load into DISKPART.
- Change the SAN policy by typing the following: SAN POLICY=OnlineAll
Nothing else, just mount the disk. I wish you all the best of luck, and if I have failed you, I am sorry, but we are all only human.
I checked the current SAN policy on my Windows 7 Pro SP1 x64 machine I was having problem with this error on previously, and it is defaulted to OnlineAll already, with no change needed there. (checked by entering DISKPART and simply typing in SAN).
I reinstalled Softperfect Ramdisk and the same issue occurs as before, on a fresh reboot of my machine and with a pagefile that is 2x the size of my 16gb of ram, with both the pagefile and OS on a fast commercial-grade SSD:
"NT error code = C000009A: Insufficient system resources exist to complete the API, image status = Unknown reason.
"Win32 error code = 0 The operation completed successfully"
I really don't know why it worked perfectly before and then decided to start showing errors. I really like this ramdisk software more than any others, but it seems that some windows update or setting breaks it, unfortunately.
If anyone ever discovers a fix to this issue, I'll stay subscribed to this thread.
Thanks for the suggestions.