TSGL: Installing 2nd hard drive

[Tilman Brandl]

Don,

no idea if this does apply in your case:
See http://support.microsoft.com/kb/884564/EN-US/

You could also look at Event viewer and check if you get the same DCOM error 
this page describes ...

Then - there's also 
http://www.techexams.net/blogs/jdmurray/one-possible-solution-to-the-rpc-server-is-unavailable-error 
which might be truly helpful.

Tilman

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Penlington" <deepend at tpg.com.au>
To: "Tech Support Guy Mailing List" <list at tsgserver.com>
Sent: Thursday, June 26, 2008 4:32 AM
Subject: TSGL: Installing 2nd hard drive


> XP SP2.
>
> I am trying to install a 2nd Sata hard drive.
>
> XP boots as normal, the new drive is recognised in CMOS and in Device
> Manager, but not in My Computer. That's probably because it's not yet
> formatted.
>
> When I open Admin tools/Computer Management/Storage/Disk Management so 
> that
> I can format it, I get an error message "RPC Server is unavailable".
>
> I have opened Services, enabled and started RPC and RPC Locator services,
> but still get the same message when trying to open Disk Management.
>
> I disconnected from internet and turned off XP firewall, but that didn't
> help either.
>
> Where am I going wrong?
>
> Don Penlington
> From the Beach at Surfers Paradise in sunny Queensland.
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