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

[Kaktussoft]

Alright, C: shall remain C:, Dvd will become O:, second partition on C: will become D:, and the 750gb drive will become E:. Is that alright?

alright but what is on 750gb drive? (actually 698gb in diskmanagment)

 

[Ty Tonus Burman]

Kaktu- The program files for my games. That's litterally the only thing on the drive, about 50gb of game files.


Alright. So I think il boost the 50gb windows OS partition to 100, because really, everything else on my computer is kept on the second drive, so space isnt an issue on the first one.

Il then turn the remaining space on that drive into its own partition, and label it D:

And il then take the secondary drive and label it E: (As well, i've moved the bootmgr off of this drive, and onto C: )

Am I good to go?

 

[Kaktussoft]

is the partition on 750GB disk already "not active"? If not make it "not active" also remove file X:\bootmgr and folder X:\boot
(replace X with right letter). This is just to remove bootfiles no longer needed. Now reboot and post diskmanagement screenshot

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Sounds like a decent plan.

Post a new screenshot after you complete the partitioning.

 

[Ty Tonus Burman]

Well, here's hoping I did everything right:

PS: Before the issue is solved, there are a bunch of random files on my secondary disk, presumably from Vista. Things like: eula.1042, and install.res.1042.dll, and VC_RED, and a folder called 6a7e2d01475381a44dc3ee with dozens of folders in it. What are these? are they safe to delete?

 

[Kaktussoft]

Well, here's hoping I did everything right:

PS: Before the issue is solved, there are a bunch of random files on my secondary disk, presumably from Vista. Things like: eula.1042, and install.res.1042.dll, and VC_RED, and a folder called 6a7e2d01475381a44dc3ee with dozens of folders in it. What are these? are they safe to delete?

right-click on E in diskmanagement and make it "inactive"!! and delete the files I said on E. then reboot

 

[Ty Tonus Burman]

I tried that, but there was no option to make it inactive. The only options when I right-click are:

Open
Explore
Mark partition as active (greyed out)
Change drive letter and paths
Format (grey)
Extend (grey)
Shrink
Delete (grey)
Properties
Help

 

[Kaktussoft]

I tried that, but there was no option to make it inactive. The only options when I right-click are:

Open
Explore
Mark partition as active (greyed out)
Change drive letter and paths
Format (grey)
Extend (grey)
Shrink
Delete (grey)
Properties
Help

open an elevated command prompt : In the Start Menu search box area, type cmd and press CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER.

DISKPART
SEL DISK 0
SEL PART 0
inactive
exit

 

[Kaktussoft]

you did a fresh install of win7 very recently isn't it?

PS: Before the issue is solved, there are a bunch of random files on my secondary disk, presumably from Vista. Things like: eula.1042, and install.res.1042.dll, and VC_RED, and a folder called 6a7e2d01475381a44dc3ee with dozens of folders in it. What are these? are they safe to delete?

You can delete those files, because they are old stuff! What else is on that disk? New win7 installation has no pointers to those files. Games installed on E have to be reinstalled

 

[Ty Tonus Burman]

Ahh, Diskpart.exe, that program was useful back on vista... Alright the drive is Inactive. I tried looking for the boot files, but i couldn't find anything on the drive (excuse my Noob-ness) Rebooting now.

As for the files on the game disk, im aware that they all need to be re-installed.

I tried to delete the folder with all those weird files in it, but it said: You require permission from S1-5-21-3851587055-1910750358-4213946572-1000 to make changes to this folder.

 

[ignatzatsonic]

Well, here's hoping I did everything right:

PS: Before the issue is solved, there are a bunch of random files on my secondary disk, presumably from Vista. Things like: eula.1042, and install.res.1042.dll, and VC_RED, and a folder called 6a7e2d01475381a44dc3ee with dozens of folders in it. What are these? are they safe to delete?

Get the system and active disk stuff straightened out first using Diskpart per the instructions given.

After that is done---I notice that your game disk is disk 0 and your C drive is disk 1.

It's preferable that the game disk is disk 1 and the C drive is disk 0. You can get away with it the way you have it in most circumstances, but I have heard it can occasionally cause problems.

You can correct it by swapping cable connections inside the case--the cables from your drives to the motherboard. Just switch the connection at the motherboard end.

 

[Kaktussoft]

Ahh, Diskpart.exe, that program was useful back on vista... Alright the drive is Inactive. I tried looking for the boot files, but i couldn't find anything on the drive (excuse my Noob-ness) Rebooting now.

As for the files on the game disk, im aware that they all need to be re-installed.

I tried to delete the folder with all those weird files in it, but it said: You require permission from S1-5-21-3851587055-1910750358-4213946572-1000 to make changes to this folder.

files are from vista so not allowed to delete. Security issue. Is this just a warning? Or can't you delete them whatsoever?

 

[Ty Tonus Burman]

Ignat- Yeah, I always had the feeling that my SATA cables were backwards (I built the computer myself) I'll swap them in a second. As well, disk 0, the 700gb one, is now inactive.

Kaktu- It won't let me delete them at all, but no worries, I'll find a way to (with ubuntu or midnight commander or something)


It looks like everything is in order. Disk 0 is simply stated as Healthy, Primary partition, and Disk 1 has everything else, it is also now 100gb, and the second section of the drive is its own partition.

Unless someone has something else to say, I'll mark this as solved. Thank you very much for the help Ignat and Kaktu, I'll add to both your reputations.

 

[Kaktussoft]

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/394-hidden-files-folders-show-hide.html
option one, item 2 and 4 ... that should show the files and folders. At least activate that temporary

 

[Kaktussoft]

search yourself. Take ownership of the files and folders (include subfolders). It's in the security tab.

 

[Ty Tonus Burman]

Well, i'm not able to delete the files, but il bring that issue to a different section of the forums. Thank you both for all your help, I appreciate it.

Have a great day,
~Ty Tonus-Burman