Ray Costanzo <> scribbled on Friday, July 11, 2008 4:44 AM: Start disk manager once and it will want to initialise the new disk and whatnot. Your problem should be taken care of there and then. > I just added a hard drive to a WS2003 machine, and it didn't have a > default administrative share (E$). Is this expected behavior? My > system drive, C, had the expected C$ share. In googling, I'm only > finding info about removing the admin shares, but I'm trying to find out > if this is new behavior that non-system drives don't have a default > share automatically. > > In the event that this matters, this is a VMWare-hosted virtual server > using a physical disk on the host machine, but I don't see that the > guest OS would have any way of knowing this...