some partitions not shown in explorer

G

Guest

I have the followin problem:

I used to have a windows XP system, partitioned as follows:

HDD0: |15GB NTFS|20GB FAT32|40GB NTFS|
HDD1: |20GB FAT32| 20GB FAT32|

at sometime I installed a linux system (dual boot, LILO in MBR) and
therefore changed the partitioning of HDD1 to:
|10GB ReiserFS| 2GB Linux Swap| 20 GB FAT32|
HDD0 remained unchanged.

since this moment all partitions on HDD0 except for the 15GB one, were
invisble to windows XP. The 20GB on HDD1 was visble.

After this, I removed linux, en reinstalled my windows XP, with ServicePack
2.
The installer showed the missing partitions, including driveletters. But
after the installation the partitions weren't shown in explorer.

They ARE visble in the disk manager.

This is what I see:
http://softmatic.mine.nu/cpg/albums/userpics/10005/screendisk1.JPG

Here I can't do anything but delete them (I cannot assign driveletter, or
Format)


Short summary:
Visible:
HDD0: 15GB NTFS
HDD1: 20GB FAT32

Invisible:
HDD0: 40GB NTFS | 20GB FAT32
HDD1: the two unknown partitions, these are old linux partitions, so can be
disregarded.

Can someone tell me how to make these partitions available???
 
G

Guest

That is exactly NOT wat I want to do, because of all the data on those
partitions!
I am looking for another way to make these usable again.
 

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