"The Requested Resource Is in Use" Error Message While Preparing or Moving Media

ID: Q244648

The information in this article applies to:

Microsoft Windows 2000 Advanced Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Datacenter Server
Microsoft Windows 2000 Professional
Microsoft Windows 2000 Server

SYMPTOMS

While you are using Removable Storage Manager (RSM) and attempting to prepare media or move media that is located in a program's media pool to the free media pool, you may receive the following error message:

Removable Storage

The requested resource is in use.

You receive this error message after you receive several different prompts, depending on whether you chose to prepare or move the media. These prompts include:

Confirm Media Preparation
This operation will destroy the data on the media and move it to the free pool.

Are you sure you want to write a free media label on the selected medium ?

Followed by:

Confirm Media Preparation
Are you sure you want to write a free media label on 'Media_Name'?

-or-

Confirm Media Move
Moving a piece of media to a free media pool will destroy the data on it.
Are you sure you want to write a free media label on 'Media_Name'?

CAUSE

The "The requested resource is in use" error message may imply that the media drive or changer is in use. This error message occurs because the RSM "prepare media" and "move media" functions do not check to see if the media is free or unallocated before asking for confirmations. The only media that is allowed to be prepared or moved is media that is not currently allocated by a program (or in other words, is currently deallocated).

RESOLUTION

Before you attempt to prepare media or to move media to the free media pool, you must manually deallocate that media first:

Right-click the media you want to deallocate, point to All Tasks, and then click Deallocate.

When you receive the following prompts, click Yes at each prompt:

Confirm Media Deallocation
Deallocating media without the knowledge of the owning application can cause the data on it to be lost.
Are you sure you want to deallocate the selected item ?

YES NO

Confirm Media Deallocation
Are you sure you want to deallocate 'tape_name'?

YES NO

This deallocates the media from the current program and allows the media to be prepared or moved the next time you try the operation.

STATUS

Microsoft has confirmed this to be a problem in the Microsoft products listed at the beginning of this article.

MORE INFORMATION

For additional information, click the article number below to view the article in the Microsoft Knowledge Base:

Q240856 Removable Storage Manager Terms and Definitions

Additional query words:

Keywords : kberrmsg kbtool
Version : WINDOWS:2000
Platform : WINDOWS
Issue type : kbprb