Storage HDD being seen by everything but XP

[darb webb]

Hi all.
I have a 120g and 80g HDD. The both dirves are being recognised in the
BOIS.
When I boot to XP SP2 I can see both drives in Disk management but the
80g can't be given
a dirve letter. It says that it is: 74.53 GB NTFS Healthy (Unknown
Partition).
It cannot be seen in Windows Explorer.
However; I can boot to a live linux distro and access the drive and
copy files from the drive.
Also, Partition Magic reports that the partition is "hidden".
I unhide the partition then boot to XP and it seems to hide the
partition again. (if i go back to PM it's hidden)

I have used partition magic to repartition the HDD's and move
partitions etc etc,
maybe something weird has happened because of that?

Any idea's?
TIA

Darb

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

Are you dual booting using a 3rd party boot manager?

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You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Jim Macklin]

This might help, How to Take Ownership
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=308421


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"Crusty (-: Old B@stard "
| Are you dual booting using a 3rd party boot manager?
|
| --
| Regards,
|
| Richard Urban
|
| aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard
|
| If you knew as much as you think you know,
| You would realize that you don't know what you thought you
knew!
|
|
| | > Hi all.
| > I have a 120g and 80g HDD. The both dirves are being
recognised in the
| > BOIS.
| > When I boot to XP SP2 I can see both drives in Disk
management but the
| > 80g can't be given
| > a dirve letter. It says that it is: 74.53 GB NTFS
Healthy (Unknown
| > Partition).
| > It cannot be seen in Windows Explorer.
| > However; I can boot to a live linux distro and access
the drive and
| > copy files from the drive.
| > Also, Partition Magic reports that the partition is
"hidden".
| > I unhide the partition then boot to XP and it seems to
hide the
| > partition again. (if i go back to PM it's hidden)
| >
| > I have used partition magic to repartition the HDD's and
move
| > partitions etc etc,
| > maybe something weird has happened because of that?
| >
| > Any idea's?
| > TIA
| >
| > Darb
|
|

 

[darb w]

Boot Magic 8

Are you dual booting using a 3rd party boot manager?

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

See if there is a parameter in Boot Magic 8 that allows you to "hide" a
partition from another operating system.

I use System Commander and I have my computer set up this way. The operating
systems that I AM NOT USING are hidden from the operating system that I have
booted into.

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!

 

[darb w]

Nice work Crusty OB.
When advanced partition hiding is enabled you can go into the
properties and overide the config. For some reason the partition I
wanted was excluded from this.
Thank-you very much for your help.

Darb

 

[Crusty \(-: Old B@stard :-\)]

(-: You're welcome!

I had an idea you may have been dual booting!

--
Regards,

Richard Urban

aka Crusty (-: Old B@stard

If you knew as much as you think you know,
You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!