USB Drive not showing up in "My Computer"

[shadoe]

I had C:, D, and H: (USB) before I partitioned my D: drive with Partition
Magic: E: and F: are CD drives.
I wanted to add 3 more partitions to D: (which I did) and they now are G:,
H:, and I: showing in "My Computer"
BUT...now my USB drive does not show (I can find it in DOS mode as K and
also in UltraEdit it shows up as K: drive, and in UltraEdit it shows a J:
drive that is not accessible but shows a + sign in front of it. When I try
to access the J: drive in DOS it say's there is no disk in drive, insert
disk and try again. In short: "My Computer does not show the J: nor the K:
(again, is the USB drive) H E L P Have I really messed up????? Any
help will be most appreciated. Thank You.
shadoe

 

[shadoe]

Addendum:
K: drive does show up in Partition Magic, but J: does not.....
shadoe




|I had C:, D, and H: (USB) before I partitioned my D: drive with Partition
| Magic: E: and F: are CD drives.
| I wanted to add 3 more partitions to D: (which I did) and they now are G:,
| H:, and I: showing in "My Computer"
| BUT...now my USB drive does not show (I can find it in DOS mode as K and
| also in UltraEdit it shows up as K: drive, and in UltraEdit it shows a J:
| drive that is not accessible but shows a + sign in front of it. When I try
| to access the J: drive in DOS it say's there is no disk in drive, insert
| disk and try again. In short: "My Computer does not show the J: nor the
K:
| (again, is the USB drive) H E L P Have I really messed up????? Any
| help will be most appreciated. Thank You.
| shadoe
|
|

 

[Nog]

I had C:, D, and H: (USB) before I partitioned my D: drive with Partition
Magic: E: and F: are CD drives.
I wanted to add 3 more partitions to D: (which I did) and they now are G:,
H:, and I: showing in "My Computer"
BUT...now my USB drive does not show (I can find it in DOS mode as K and
also in UltraEdit it shows up as K: drive, and in UltraEdit it shows a J:
drive that is not accessible but shows a + sign in front of it. When I try
to access the J: drive in DOS it say's there is no disk in drive, insert
disk and try again. In short: "My Computer does not show the J: nor the
K:
(again, is the USB drive) H E L P Have I really messed up????? Any
help will be most appreciated. Thank You.
shadoe

Make sure you don't have a lastdrive= in msdos.sys file or raise it to a
higher letter. Why all the partitions? Are you running separate operating
systems of all of them? It's a waist of diskspace just to separate data that
can be done with directories and subdirectories. Each partition renders a
portion of the drive for itself that is non usable for your data. If your
drive crashes you still loose all your partitions. If your OS crashes, you
can't access the other partitions anyway.