Missing a drive partition

[guice]

I have a dual boot system with WinXP and Win7 on the same drive, partitioned out. I also have a second drive which contains most of my data files.

For some reason, Win7 isn't seeing my XP partition, however it has no problems seeing my data drive. XP can also successfully see the new Win7 partition when I boot into XP.

Is there a reason why Win7 can't see my XP partition? Is there a way to fix this? Doing a search on this was quite hard. I kept getting all sorts of irrelevant results (most about full missing hds which isn't my problem).

 

[SIW2]

Hi again guice,

Win 7 does that on purpose. If you wish to see your XP partition while in 7, do this :

Boot into 7, go into Disk Management, right click the XP partition, and assign a drive letter - best accept the one it offers by default.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3741-hard-disk-partition-letter-missing-windows-7-fix.html

Good idea to reboot

Hope it helps

SIW2

 

[Lucas]

i got this problem too

on windows xp. i have 2 disks.

first disk, with 2 partitions ( C:/ and D:/)
second disk with 1 partition ( G:/ )

windows xp is installed on C:/

and i already installed windows 7 on G:/

ok, then i got dual boot...

when i use Windows xp i open windows explorer and i can see all partitions ( C:/ D:/ and G:/ )

When i use Windows 7 i open windows explorer I can see only C:/ and G:/

i already tried to change the D:/ drive letter but this option is disabled. can someone help me with this?

 

[Mark]

Can you select any other letters for it or don't you have any options to assign a letter, you might find that one of your DVD drives is assigned with the d, if it is you will need to change that letter to something else before it becomes available for your HHD.

 

[limneos]

i got this problem too

on windows xp. i have 2 disks.

first disk, with 2 partitions ( C:/ and D:/)
second disk with 1 partition ( G:/ )

windows xp is installed on C:/

and i already installed windows 7 on G:/

ok, then i got dual boot...

when i use Windows xp i open windows explorer and i can see all partitions ( C:/ D:/ and G:/ )

When i use Windows 7 i open windows explorer I can see only C:/ and G:/

i already tried to change the D:/ drive letter but this option is disabled. can someone help me with this?

Assign a drive letter to the hidden partition under disk management while logged on on Windows 7 .

 

[Lucas]

doesnt work... look atached pic:

C:/ same as G:/ on windows xp
E:/ same as C:/ on windows xp
another one without letter = D:/ on windows xp

 

[Mark]

Have you clicked on the add button that you can see in your pic.

 

[Lucas]

woot... i was scary about that... tot it could format my partition... but works... thx and sorry.

 

[Mark]

No worries Lucas and welcome to the Forums.

 

[guice]

Awesome. Got it to work, too. Thanks!

 

[wan3350]

My disc can view but cannot assign drive!!!!

I have different scenario, one of my new HD missing while installed window 7. When I retrieved using computer disk management, manage to detect disk but fail to add disk ( as picture shown). Could someone tell me how to solve this problem

 

[Mark]

You just need to give it a drive letter and you can then access it.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/3741-hard-disk-partition-letter-missing-windows-7-fix.html

 

[wan3350]

I did try, but it cant. A message telling that I unable to continue this process. Attached picture

 

[wan3350]

If you are using Seagate SATA drive, here is

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=satatshooterstoragedrivenolonger&vgnextoid=226280b0bf3ea110VgnVCM100000f5ee0a0aRCRD

To download Seagate Tools as follows

http://www.seagate.com/ww/v/index.jsp?locale=en-US&name=seatools-win&vgnextoid=552bd20cacdec010VgnVCM100000dd04090aRCRD

 

[jackl007]

missing a drive in 7

Hi!
I had win xp, I installed windows 7; so it's greatful... but i have missing a drive (around 9 gigas)...
I got the same message than wan3350; with the SeaTools i can do nothing, so how i can solve this?
did wan3350 solve the problem? how? step by step, please; i have very important information there, i need get it...

THANKs

 

[johngalt]

Can you be more specific about the 'missing' drive?

 

[jackl007]

missing a drive in 7

Thanks!
I had winxp in a C766LA COMPAQ; I had two partitions (C, and D (for restore, a system from COMPAQ:10 GG)); so i don't need the extra partition, i wanted more space...
i tried to format the partition with PATITION MAGIC, and then I opened PM, i got error, it was bad... i use partition magic in others pcs without problems...
with the same disk of XP, y format the unit D, so i was great, i had 10 gigas extra, then i installed win 7, and i had a missed drive
i had information in D, i liked win 7, also i need my files...
Sorry for my bad English, im spanish speaker

 

[johngalt]

Did you try Mr. Grim's advice above?

http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/2093-missing-drive-partition-2.html#post56448

 

[jackl007]

missing a drive in 7

of course; but i got an error when i select "Change path..."
"The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console view is not up to date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If the problem persists close the disk management console, then restart disk management or restart the computer"
the seatools isnt util only makes test (all are correct)
somebody said a tool called: "Test Disk" but i don't know, it can be dangerous...
I restart my pc, and nothing happens...

THANKS!!

 

[mensa]

dual boot xp and 7 - missing drive for my xp partition

Hello
Had xp on my easynote ; installed W7 - works fine except that my xp drive is nowhere to be seen and the W7 partition is C.Can still see the xp partition in disk management , but cannot add a drive letter ( greyed out ) . Tried to change the W7 drive letter - does not allow me to . Pls help as my xp sp 3 is sitting there somewhere .