I am having problems partitioning and formatting disks on a backup server. When I attempt to format any disks I get an Logical Disk Management error that ...

As Linux systems administrators watch over their hardware and software infrastructures, they constantly have to look ahead to how much space to allocate to hard-disk partitions to meet changing needs.

All of the sudden when I try to open Disk management on my Win2k workstation, the service never opens. The window just says "Connecting to logical disk manager service".<BR>I am logged on as Admin.