Lost the drive letter D for my recovery partition...

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Lee Lord

I'm sorry if this is a duplicate but I don't believe my last posting sent...

I lost my drive letter for my D recovery partition. It no longer shows in
Windows Explorer. When I go to Administrative Tools > Computer Management >
Disk Management I see the 10.6G used partition but with no letter. I tried
to assign a letter to it but I get an error message "The operation failed to
complete because the disk management console view is not up to date... to
refresh or restart the computer. I did but to no avail, I get the same
message.

I believe this has something to do with the partition table as I tried to
load an older copy of Partition magic from a floppy. That's when I got the
error stating something about the partition table then the program failed to
load. Is there a way I can fix the partition table to see my D drive again
if this is the problem? Thanks so much! Lee Lord
 
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Richard Urban

If you had come here prior to doing what you did you would have been
informed that there is no version of Partition Magic that is compatible with
Vista.

Did you allow PM to correct any errors that it said it found? If so - big
mistake!

Two and 1/2 years ago I ran into the same problem on a clients computer. I
had to delete all the partitions from the drive and rebuild the drive from
scratch. To my knowledge the drive is still functional.
 
J

John Barnes

I agree with Richard except that the latest version of Partition Magic from
Symantec is compatible with Vista. You are probably going to have to use
the recovery disk you should have made or request one from the computer
manufacturer.
I would not use any version of Partition Magic. I would use Terrabytes or
Acronis products instead.
 
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Lee Lord

Thanks so much guys for the replies. Yes I ended up using the recovery disks
which put everything back to normal including recreating my recovery D
partition. Thanks again! Lee
 
C

Charles W Davis

Both your C: Partition and D: Recovery partitions are on your hard drive.
 

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