Disk management could not start virtual disk service (VDS)

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A right pain in the butt, i have tried three external HDD but neither show up in windows 7, when i go to computer management i get the message in the Header, with the addition of this.

This can happen if the Remote computer does not support VDS, or if a connection cannot be established Because it was blocked by a windows Firewall.

I have run troubleshooter but nothing works lol.
Any help would be Great.
Thanks and a Happy new year.

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Are you running Windows in a VM?

Joe

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Hi Joe no i am not.

Jim

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Have you tried starting the Virtual Disk Service from the services applet?

Have you checked the system event logs for additional information?

Joe

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Joe so very simple mate, thank you, it was set to “Disabled”, never even knew it existed in there, so how it would have got disabled i have no idea.
Thanks Joe and a Happy new year.

Jim

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You’re welcome. Glad you got it resolved. Thanks for posting back.

Joe

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