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What Is an Offline Disk

Disk Management displays the Offline status when a dynamie disk is not

accessible. The inaccessible disk may be corrupted or intermittently

unavailabie. The Offline status also appears if you attempt to import a foreign

dynamie disk, but the operation fails. An error ieon appears on the offline disk.

The Offline status appears only for dynamie disks.

When you remove a dynamie disk from a Computer, the remaining online

dynamie disks retain information about it and its volumes. Disk Management

displays the removed disk as a Dynamic/Offlinę disk named Missing. You can

remove this Missing disk entry by removing all volumes on that disk and then

using the Remove Diskcommand that is associated with that disk. When you

physically remove the last dynamie disk, the Missing entry is no longer

displayed in Disk Management.

Reactivating or rescanning an offline disk changes the disk status from Offline to OK.