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VMWare Datastore inactive but Status Normal

I got this issue with my iSCSI disk provided by Microsoft Windows Server. I am able to access the iSCSI datastore, all of my Virtual Machines are operational with any issue, my iSCSI datastore is showing as inactive but its status is showing normal. It happend after I had removed iSCSI targets from Windows but and added new target after some time. What I did; Rescanned all datastore multiple times --- no luck restarted management services from SSH of all ESXi hosts with command  $ services.sh restart --- no luck Removed and re-added targets from iSCSI (Windows) Side --- no luck Removed few VMs which were in inaccessible state and then rescanned datastore --- no luck Finally restarted each ESXi host at a time, it solved the problem.

How to Convert Linux Ubuntu Partition into Windows Partition

You need to format the partition on which you want to install Linux Ubuntu and the type of Linux Format is completely different than those of Windows Format types. That's why hard disk partition on which Ubuntu is installed is not view able from Windows Operating System, because windows does not support Linux Ubuntu Formats.  This goes good until you want to both operating systems with dual boot system. When you do not want to use Linux Ubuntu you will have to convert its partition to NTFS or FAT32 in order to access the partition and store and access data from this partition. One method to convert Ubuntu partition to Windows is to convert and format the partition with Free MINITOOL Partition Program. Remember this procedure will only convert to Windows Supported partitions and will ask you to format the partition until you can use it. So you will loose any data on your Ubuntu partition.  See  How to access U...

Recover Data from Drive with Not initialized Disk Error

Having an Internal or External Hard Disk that you were using without any problem, but suddenly it is giving error that the disk is not initialized! In this situation you can not see any disk Drive in My Computer, but when you go to the Windows Disk Management utility, it is shown there with message “ You must initialize a Disk before Logical Disk Manager can access it “. I started getting this message on my 500 GB external Hard drive since it fell down the ground. I tried many data recovery software, but no recovery software was able to communicate with the faulty drive as the disk starts communication with the PC once it is initialized. Googling this initializing problem, i found it works some times but sometimes it even worsen the case. So i was not taking that risk and continued googling found a Magic Solution for my issue, the software called Partition Find and Mount What this tool does, Scans for the drive and the mounts it as a Normal Drive, and open Windows Explorer… After you ...