sorry to be slow. had to pickup and infected notebook - fumigation in process...
she says FAT32 however that is only part of the story as the size shows up as an even 200mb. what gets reflected under 'list disk', and is under Disk Management [gui] also is a size of 931GB
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Select each volume by using
select volume # (where # is the volume number associated with the drive)within diskpart. Then type
assignAlternatively, you can assign it a letter as follows and see if that works if assign by itself fails.
assign letter=Y
Note: I used Y as that letter is likely not being used by another drive. You have to choose letters that are not already in use.
Does it assign letters to them now?
Last edited by writhziden; 04 Jan 2012 at 13:04. Reason: More info about assigning letters to drives
Once they have letters, you can convert them from FAT32 to NTFS by following the steps in Convert FAT or FAT32 Volume to NTFS
the issue is that 'list volume' does not see a volume associated with the bulk of the disk. see image attached
Select each volume by using
select volume # (where # is the volume number associated with the drive)within diskpart. Then type
assignAlternatively, you can assign it a letter as follows and see if that works if assign by itself fails.
assign letter=Y
Note: I used Y as that letter is likely not being used by another drive. You have to choose letters that are not already in use.
Does it assign letters to them now?
I honestly do not know how it was changed from MBR to GPT without someone entering commands to do so... The only method I know to change back to MBR so you can access it in Windows is to use the Diskpart Clean command, but that will clear the partition table and you will lose your data.
Anyone else in these forums know a way to reclaim the drive without losing data?
I'll go try to seek you some help with this...
Last edited by writhziden; 04 Jan 2012 at 16:09. Reason: Added that I'll seek help for this
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