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Hardware Inventory Fails on Removable Media Drives

Article ID: 151861

Article Last Modified on 10/27/2006

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This article was previously published under Q151861

SYMPTOMS

If a client has a removable media drive, and inventory is run without a disk in that drive, inventory fails with the following error:
HARDWARE INVENTORY PHASE
-[xx%]-
Not Ready Reading Drive D
Abort, Retry, Fail?

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in Systems Management Server versions 1.0 and 1.1. We are researching this problem and will post new information in the Microsoft Knowledge Base as it becomes available.

Additional query words: prodsms

Keywords: kbhardware kbinventory KB151861


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