Missing Partitions on 2nd Hard Drive

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Glenn

I had a problem with XP Pro crashing on start-up about two weeks ago. I
called Microsoft Tech Support and they had me do some stuff that
apparently reverted my system back to some previous level.

I'm working my way through issues that this has caused. The one I'm
stuck on now is that I have a 2nd hard drive with 3 partitions on it
(and data I don't want to lose). I just got off the phone with
Microsoft (for what seems like the millionth time in the last 2 weeks).
They had me delete an "UpperFilters" value, which resulted in a drive
letter being assigned to the 1st partition on the drive, but I still
can't see the other 2.


Can someone please help?


Thanks.
 
Glen

Where is it that you cannot see the second hard drive? The BIOS, Disk
Management or Windows Explorer?

Was it System Restore that Microsoft Tech Support got you to do?

What were the drive / partition letters of both drives before you had
the problem and what are they for what you can see now?


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Hope this helps.

Gerry
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That was it? I downloaded it and it was fixed in 5 minutes!!! I can't tell
you how many hours and how many headaches I had dealing with the idiots at
Microsoft (India Division).

I also had called some local PC places and of course they wanted to charge a
bunch just to look at my drive and determine if my data was retrievable.

In my view, you're a genius. What a lifesaver.

Thanks a bunch!

Glenn
 
I believe it was a System Restore they had me do. The details of exactly
what they had me do are fuzzy right now because they were all long command
prompt commands.

The drive partitions did not show in Disk Management or Explorer but the
TestDisk utility that Jaymon referenced detected and fixed it in no more
than a couple of minutes.

All is now OK :-)

Glenn
 
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