Cannot see a Patition

[Ritter197]

I have 1 320GB Samsung Hard drive. It has an Extended partition on it which
is set Primary.

The drive "L" (of this Extended partition) is set to "Logical".

In the Control Panel and under Disk management I can see the "C" drive and
the "L" dive and they are shown as healthy. C drive has the OS on it, L
drive all Applications.

The "L" logical drive is in the Unhide position, yet in Windows Explorer
this
"L" drive does not show up at all.
For the OS I am using Windows XP Media edition.

What do I need to do ?

 

[Uwe Sieber]

I have 1 320GB Samsung Hard drive. It has an Extended partition on it
which is set Primary.

The drive "L" (of this Extended partition) is set to "Logical".

In the Control Panel and under Disk management I can see the "C" drive
and the "L" dive and they are shown as healthy. C drive has the OS on
it, L drive all Applications.

The "L" logical drive is in the Unhide position, yet in Windows Explorer
this
"L" drive does not show up at all.
For the OS I am using Windows XP Media edition.

What do I need to do ?

Please post in one group only.


Try to enter L: in the address bar of the Windows Explorer. If you
get the L: contents listed then the drive letter is hidden by a tool
like TweakUI (My Computer -> Drives, check all drives here).
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/downloads/powertoys/xppowertoys.mspx


Greetings from Germany

Uwe

 

[Ritter197]

When I enter L: it says that it cannot find the path to L:.
It works fine on C: and I tested it on an external A: too. So your
suggestion is fine. but it brings forth not the desired results.

YET I know from Disk management that the L: drive (logical) is there and
disk health is good.

How in the world will I ever get the L: drive back since it hold all my
Applications.

 

[Ritter197]

I have Tweakiu and when I look at drives, it list them all, including drive
"L" but with a "?" in it.

 

[Uwe Sieber]

Then there is something screwed up...

I would try to assign a different drive letter in the
disk management. If you can access the partition now,
open the registry editor, go to
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\MountedDevices, delete here
the value '\DosDevices\L:'.
Then change the drive letter back to L: in the
disk management.

If you cannot access the drive under the different
letter then there is something wrong with the partition
itself.


Uwe

 

[John Redthorn]

I have 1 320GB Samsung Hard drive. It has an Extended partition on it
which is set Primary.

The drive "L" (of this Extended partition) is set to "Logical".

In the Control Panel and under Disk management I can see the "C" drive
and the "L" dive and they are shown as healthy. C drive has the OS on
it, L drive all Applications.

The "L" logical drive is in the Unhide position, yet in Windows Explorer
this
"L" drive does not show up at all.
For the OS I am using Windows XP Media edition.

What do I need to do ?

The partition I assume has been formatted since you said it contained
files.
Are you using the same pc as was used to format the drive or have you
put the drive in a different pc ?

I do not know anything about win media edition but I use win xp and I
have many drives . my logical drives all show up in explorer with no
special treatment . Just make the partition , format it and there it is .
I did have a problem with them showing up when I partitioned them with
some software that I do not remember the name of but think it was super
fdisk.

Perhaps your partition has become corrupt . If the data is not
absolutely important you might just try and re partition it with
partition magic or some other good program .

 

[John Redthorn]

I have 1 320GB Samsung Hard drive. It has an Extended partition on it
which is set Primary.

The drive "L" (of this Extended partition) is set to "Logical".

In the Control Panel and under Disk management I can see the "C" drive
and the "L" dive and they are shown as healthy. C drive has the OS on
it, L drive all Applications.

The "L" logical drive is in the Unhide position, yet in Windows Explorer
this
"L" drive does not show up at all.
For the OS I am using Windows XP Media edition.

What do I need to do ?

i just realized I replied to a post from 2007 . Damn i need to pay
attention . Damn , i just did it again .