Unrecognised partition on hard drive

2009-09-27 22:31:12

#1

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6771|Gold Coast

Greetings,

Once again I come to the tech section seeking help (it seems I cannot escape the problems of computers). I recently (yesterday) formatted my C drive and did a fresh install of Windows. I made sure that the format was only done on the C drive, and it was done no problem. However, upon logging into Windows XP, I tried to look for the other partitions on the hard drive, which is a Western Digital C WD10EA SCSI 1TB (From looking at My Computer hardware list). It recognises the C drive, but when I installed PartitionMagic, it saw that the rest of the hard drive was unassigned.
Is there a way so that the partitions are recognised again? Or would I have to recover everything... I would have thought that formatting C would not effect the other partitions.

Thanks in advance.

noice

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2009-09-28 04:31:56

#2

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6699|King Of The Islands

Define "Unassigned"?

Shirley it just needs to be assigned a letter in Disk Management.

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2009-09-28 05:22:31

#3

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6771|Gold Coast

Well when I look at disk management it says the C drive is recognised as 128GB, and the rest is not assigned a letter. No idea what to do... the data sould all be there, already assigned.

noice

2009-09-28 05:26:24

#4

max: Vela Incident; +1,652|6828|NYC / Hamburg

Mount the partition.

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2009-09-28 05:30:01

#5

Cheez: Herman is a warmaphrodite; +1,027|6699|King Of The Islands

128GB on purpose? Or you just happen to partition to a common size limitation?

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2009-09-28 05:45:17

#6

rammunition: Fully Loaded; +143|6122

go to control panel, system and computer management. go to storage. and see if you can see the unallocated memory. Right click on C and expand it.

2009-09-28 06:00:50

#7

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6641|the land of bourbon

you didn't format your drive as FAT instead of NTFS right?

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2009-09-28 22:14:40

#8

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6771|Gold Coast

@ max: Noob question... how do I do that?
@ Cheez: 128 was the same size as the allocated C drive last time, which was the default size
@ ram: Im in storage and can see the unallocated memory and C drive, but when I right click I cant see 'expand'
@ steelie: No, formatted as NTFS
@ jam: Heh, yeah I find it quite useless too.

As a last resort (which my dad seems and thinks appropriate), I am recovering everything on the other partitions. Last time I did this it didnt recover everything... it seems to have only recovered what was on the drive a few weeks earlier. Hopefully this is different, and if I cant refix the partitions then I guess Im going to hope that this recovery gets everything (Using GetDataBack for NTFS).

noice

2009-09-28 22:27:25

#9

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|6976

How many partitions did yo have?
C=128gb that the OS was on...
how many other partitions?

When you reformatted did you delete the C partition and create a new C 128gb... then format it?

Found this... TestDisk
it helps to recover partitions...
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardwar … puter.html

Last edited by [TUF]Catbox (2009-09-28 22:30:17)

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2009-09-29 18:06:12

#10

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6771|Gold Coast

There was a C drive, which WinXP was installed on, and F, G and H drives, all roughly divided equally to what was left.
I think I just formatted the C partition rather than creating a new one.

Thanks for the software, will try it out.

noice

2009-09-30 02:32:32

#11

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6771|Gold Coast

[TUF]Catbox wrote:
How many partitions did yo have?
C=128gb that the OS was on...
how many other partitions?

When you reformatted did you delete the C partition and create a new C 128gb... then format it?

Found this... TestDisk
it helps to recover partitions...
http://www.techsupportforum.com/hardwar … puter.html

I tried out TestDisk. Nothing happened Im afraid.

noice

2009-09-30 05:08:59

#12

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6771|Gold Coast

Using Active Partition Recovery tool. Working like a charm. Thanks for the help anyways.

noice

2009-09-30 19:15:11

#13

Catbox: forgiveness; +505|6976

Glad it's working... can be frightening when partitions disappear...lol
especially when there are important files on them..

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2009-09-30 19:25:36

#14

Brasso: member; +1,549|6890

partitionmagic is actually a good program. the way you explained it, it seems that a partition was made out of part of your hard drive, and the rest of the space was unassigned. the solution is simple: just use partitionmagic and extend the partition.

anyway, glad you were able to fix the problem.

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2009-09-30 23:24:41

#15

KuSTaV: noice; +947|6771|Gold Coast

Reformatting has caused more problems than its solved. See other thread.

noice

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