Partition not assigned drive letter

[Guest]

This happen this morning ...
It's an SATA disk. Divided into two FAT32 partitions.
The first partiton which is the system partitoin is ok.
The second one is the problem. It seems like WinXP doesn't want to assign any
drive letter into it ( it used to be D: )
I've check within disk management. The info shows that XP knows it as FAT32
partition, it knows its size, free space, label, etc.
But it shows 'Healthy(Unknown Partition)' at the status info rather than
'Healthy(SRC)' --> it used to be like that.
However I'm still able to access it within Debian GNU/Linux, and my friend's
XP box.
Under Disk Management, there's only "Delete partition" action available. No
"Change
drive letter" action available.
Any workaround to solve this problem is very much appretiated. I've got a
bunch of data and specific applications installed on it.

Thanks

 

[Guest]

Unknown Partition Indicates that the partition is not recognized.
Partitions on master boot record (MBR) or GUID partition table (GPT) disks
with Healthy (Unknown Partition) status "might" be an unrecognized
original equipment manufacturer (OEM) partition, OEM partition, or
non-Windows operating system partition.

You cannot format, assign drive letters or mount points to, or access data
on partitions with Healthy (Unknown Partition) status. You can, however,
delete these partitions using Disk Management or the DiskPart command. For
instructions describing how to delete partitions, see To delete a partition
or logical drive.

what is on "D" drive? Did it ever show up?

might be workaround!!

 

[Guest]

Thanks for your respond.
I've managed to delete and create the partition, but came to unsuccessfull.
First, I booted up through my other OS ( Debian ) and backed up the data.
As I mentioned before I can mount the "lost partition" over other OS and do
everything with the data on it.
So after that, I booted up the XP, deleted the "lost partition", rebooted,
created a partition on the unused space left by the partition deletion.
I was happy to see the partition had been came back.
But...as soon as i restart, the "came back" partition suddenly disappears
untill now.
Disk management shows me the info just like before ( Healthy unknown
partition ).
I'm considering of recreate all the disk from scratch but unfortunelly there
are a lot of application which I have the installer no more. :-<
Notes : I did try using Partition Magic and it fails to reformated the
partition.

 

[Guest]

When running XP and using disk management, you deleted the "unknown partition".

still using disk management, you crested a new partition.
Didn't the new partition wizard start?
was it not successful?
didn't you choose to format?
what type partition, primary or extended logical?
Didn't it ask to format and assign a drive letter?
It should've. Didn't it do that?

why are you using fat32 and not ntfs?

 

[Guest]

I posted a similar question in different newsgroup.
After searching for similar issue.
Rich Urban provided these comments. Hope this is what you need.

If you are restoring an image to a drive, and it is the only partition on
that drive, you have to assign a drive letter to it. You are able to do this
with the restore options within True Image and Ghost, before the image is
restored.

he thinks this will apply to second partiton as well.