Windows 7 Home Premium will not show other hard disk drives &partition

It appears you had Disk 0 and Disk 1 attached when you installed. It looks like your boot partition is on disk 0 and the OS is on disk 1. The 415Gb unalocated on disk 2, right click it and select create simple partition and when finished with the wizzard, you will be able to see it. To fix it, I would disconnect all disks except Disk !, run diskpart from the installation DVD and mark the C partition active. Then Run Startup repair at least 3 times with reboots in between, or until it starts. Then reconnect the other drives and mark Disk 0 inactive.

whs said:

You have a few problems:

1. Your bootmgr landed on Disk0 and not on C:. You should move that to C: - see this tutorial: Bootmgr - Move to C:\ with EasyBCD

Easybcd is very simple to move the bcd-store and bootmgr to another drive. Didn't know that. I always did that manually: make partition active, copy bootmgr and bcd

Ty Tonus Burman said:

1) Partitions C: and E: DO show in my computer.

2) Bootmgr has been moved to disk C:

4) When renaming the drives, a warning pops up saying that some programs that rely on drive names may not work correctly. If possible, i want the partitions with the OS to be B:, the remaining partition on that drive to be C:, and my secondary drive to be D: (although D: conflicts with the cd drive)


Ignatz -- What does this partitions size affect, anyway? It simply allows for more programs to be installed in the Program Files (x86) folder, amongst other folders, correct?

Always keep your windows partition C!!! As many settings in registry point to C. Never ever give it another driveletter. You can name your DVD Q,X,L whatever you want. Your old drive didn't have an driveletter (where bootmgr was on). You can give it any letter you want. But don't change it after you install something on it!!

Is disk 2 (E) an external usb drive? What's on it?

C must remain, the rest is up to you. But what do you care. The system may flop the lower letters around anyhow as soon as you attach another USB device. If you want to make sure your letters stay in place, take R,S,T,U,V