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| Levels-4-You : Lounge : Missing Partition |
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| Spikey2005 |
  Posted 22nd Jun 2009 10:39pm |  |
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Ok, So I have ran into a issue with my computer lately... LUCKLY! it has not affected my mapping for Red Faction but I have lost an extra Partition on my hard drive. Read below for the explination.
So Im missing a Partition from this pic... I have no idea why it has gone missing, but its got some data on there I would like to keep!
This image shows that in Disk Management, it is shown as unallocated space. Please bare in mind, this partition on my hard drive has not been formatted by me or anyone else.
I right click the Unallocated partition and click on "Change Drive Letter or Paths..." and I get the above error message. I refresh the view and the same error occurs.
I right click on the partition this time and select "Format...", This is the box I get. When I click on "Yes", look at what I get!
Any idea's how to get this partition back without loosing anything on it?
Operating System: Windows 7 RC Ultimate. |
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Modified Jun 22nd, 10:42pm by Spikey2005 |
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| RED-FROG |
Posted 22nd Jun 2009 10:55pm | |
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What happens if you plug the HD into another PC?
And why do you have so many partitions anyway.. what are folders for? :/
Doesn't increase any speed. Ok, may be helpful at deframentationvirus scan (doesn't take that long) but that's all I can think of.
Why did you click on "Yes" if you want to keep the data anyway? 
So yea..try it on another PC with WinXp or something. Just that drive, use it as slave/2ndHD. (of course) |
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| Spikey2005 |
Posted 22nd Jun 2009 11:06pm | |
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Well I am aware that having many partitions does not increase speed, I have that many because I like to keep certain saved items on certain partitions... as they are named...
C Local Disk = Windows and Program Files
D Games = Obviously all my games that are installed (Seperate to C drive so when reformatting windows, I dont have to re-install them again)
E Stuff = Yep, stuff... crap, rubbish... You name it, I have it!
F Backup = Backup of various programs that I like to keep on my C Drive so that when I reformat C, I do not loose anything again.
I click "Yes" Because I knew it was not going to reformat anyways without asking permission twice, as usually when going to reformat a partition, you see this handy tool come up.
I will defently try the drive on a different computer at some point, but the drive is SATA-II so it does not have Slave / Master / Cable Select jumpers on them.
I would like to know if theres anything I can do before I take my HDD out and put it into another computer? |
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Modified Jun 22nd, 11:15pm by Spikey2005 |
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| Bigblack40 |
Posted 22nd Jun 2009 11:53pm | |
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Have you tried the Diagnostics tools from the manufacture web site??? Might sound like the dumbest idea but i had a similar problem with having a partition there but couldnt assign a letter or even access it on another PC , But then again i did drop my laptop few times, put new OS on it alot and coke got spilt on it  |
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| Spikey2005 |
Posted 27th Jun 2009 5:56pm | |
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Problem Fixed!. Deleted the volume of the partition and created a new one. Now I have my partition back! YAY! 
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Modified Jun 27th, 08:08pm by Spikey2005 |
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