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As VCS should maintain control over assigning drive letters or mount points to the SFW Dynamic volumes, launch the VEA and verify if drive letters have been assigned to the volumes within the Clustered Dynamic Disk Group that is under VCS control. If drive letters have been assigned which are different than the drive letters that the VCS MountV resources are configured to assign, the cluster needs to be stopped on the node and the drive letters need to be removed in the VEA so VCS can assign the correct ones.

To stop VCS and delete the drive letters in the VEA, follow the below instructions:

1. Stop VCS on all nodes by executing the following command from a Windows command prompt:

hastop -all                        (This will stop all VCS functions, including the applications)
hastop -all -force             (This will stop all VCS functions, leaving all services managed by VCS running)

2. Once the cluster is stopped, launch VEA. 

3. Manually remove the Drive Letters from the Volumes: 

a. Expand the Volumes node in the left pane

b. Right-click > Change Drive Letter on a volume that has the incorrect drive letter.

c. Place a mark on the option for 'Do Not Assign Drive Letter'

d. If prompted, do not format the drive. 

4 Start VCS by executing the following command from a Windows command prompt:

hastart -all                   (This will start cluster services again and allow for the MountV resources to be brought online.)