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Five partitions? On one drive? Can't think of any reason to do that! Over-partitioning can lead to issues like this. Now that you've gotten your data back, I'd seriously look into creating two at the most. One is for the system volume, and one for data. If you burn your recovery discs, you can do away with the HP recovery partition as well.
Very happy to hear it has worked out for you. Was thinking about drive letter assignments, but when you remarked about DM showing "unused" it wouldn't have helped. It was only till you could see that partition (volume) in DM that you would be able to assign a drive letter.
Great Job!
...your scenario had me concerned and I wasn't too confident of recovery, Glad I was Wrong! lol
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Hey whata ya know, 400th post. hey now
Where do I go to collect my prize?
Or its different particions?