Drives not recognized by XP

[Guest]

I posted a message earlier today about how I accidently upgraded my 2K to XP instead of doing an install so I could dual boot. I received a reply that I can't go back to 2K. I have a 60G hard drive with 7 partitions and a 13G hard drive with two partitions. XP recognizes and allows acces to all the partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and allow access to 2 partitions on the 60G. The other five show as local disks but I can't access them. Under 2K all the drives had unique labels, now the drives I can't access are labeled local disk.

What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install another copy of XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the drive itself. Any suggestions on how to obtain access. Re-installing doesn't appear to be the solution? Any help someone could give would be greatly appreciated. This is seriously affecting my small business. l

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi Cecelia,

Start/run diskmgmt.msc, if you right-click a volume that is currently
unavailable, is "import" one of the options?

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Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

I posted a message earlier today about how I accidently upgraded my 2K to

XP instead of doing an install so I could dual boot. I received a reply that
I can't go back to 2K. I have a 60G hard drive with 7 partitions and a 13G
hard drive with two partitions. XP recognizes and allows acces to all the
partitions on the 13G drive. It will only recognize and allow access to 2
partitions on the 60G. The other five show as local disks but I can't access
them. Under 2K all the drives had unique labels, now the drives I can't
access are labeled local disk.

What is driving me crazy is that it allowed me to install another copy of

XP on my C drive which I have done. But I can't access the drive itself. Any
suggestions on how to obtain access. Re-installing doesn't appear to be the
solution? Any help someone could give would be greatly appreciated. This is
seriously affecting my small business. l

 

[Guest]

Open cmd prompt,in cmd typeiskPart Then type:list disk Then:list
volume See if it shows there,if so in DiskPart type:HELP For a list
of cmds available and how to configure disks.

 

[Guest]

Rick,
In the disk managment all the drives are showing. If I right click on C: there is no import option. If I try to open the message says: C:\ is not accessable, Access denied

 

[Rick \Nutcase\ Rogers]

Hi,

You may need to take ownership of the folders on C:\, Right-click a folder,
select properties. Go to the security tab and click advanced. You can take
control of the folders on the owner tab. For the security tab to appear in a
WinXP Pro system, you must disable simple file sharing in the control
panel/folder options/view tab. For a WinXP Home system, you must restart in
safe mode and logon as administrator. More details here:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

An additional note for WinXP Pro users: This procedure will not help you
recover data if the files are encrypted. All you will be able to do is
delete them. To recover encrypted files you will need the original
encryption certificate or a Recovery Agent from the installation under which
they were encrypted. Without one of these, the files are not recoverable.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Rick,
In the disk managment all the drives are showing. If I right click on C:

there is no import option. If I try to open the message says: C:\ is not
accessable, Access denied

 

[Guest]

Rick,
Thanks for the suggestion, unfortunatly even right clicking on the c: drive gives me a access denied message. I guess what I am having a hard time with is that it will install XP as many times as I want to the C drive but yet not have a visual or access to it. I am truly at my wits end.

Hi,

You may need to take ownership of the folders on C:\, Right-click a folder,
select properties. Go to the security tab and click advanced. You can take
control of the folders on the owner tab. For the security tab to appear in a
WinXP Pro system, you must disable simple file sharing in the control
panel/folder options/view tab. For a WinXP Home system, you must restart in
safe mode and logon as administrator. More details here:

HOW TO: Take Ownership of a File or Folder in Windows XP [Q308421]
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421

An additional note for WinXP Pro users: This procedure will not help you
recover data if the files are encrypted. All you will be able to do is
delete them. To recover encrypted files you will need the original
encryption certificate or a Recovery Agent from the installation under which
they were encrypted. Without one of these, the files are not recoverable.

--
Best of Luck,

Rick Rogers, aka "Nutcase" - Microsoft MVP

Associate Expert - WindowsXP Expert Zone

Windows help - www.rickrogers.org

Rick,
In the disk managment all the drives are showing. If I right click on C:

there is no import option. If I try to open the message says: C:\ is not
accessable, Access denied

 

[Guest]

Andrew,
Thanks for your reply, but it will not allow me to even open the C drive. When I try to open it will give me a message access denied. Crazy, because it will allow me to install XP for as much space as I have to the C drive but won't let me access. Can you think of anything else?