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10/22/07 at 9:31pm
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Hi,

I just installed Vista. I made two partitions... the smaller partition is where Vista Home Premium is installed. I checked in "My Computer" and it only shows me one partition, the C: drive...

How do I fix this so I can view my second partition?
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10/22/07 at 10:32pm
did you format both partitions into NTFS?
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10/22/07 at 10:54pm
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I'm sorry, what's NTFS?

When I was installing Vista there was a prompt where it asked me where I wanted to install Vista and if I wanted to create any partitions...
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10/22/07 at 10:56pm
NTFS is the filing system Windows uses.

Go into your control panel, admin tools, and click on computer management i think it is and go under disk management and look and see if its there
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10/23/07 at 12:29am
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Alright I went into Disk Management and I see:

Disk 0 (basic) is my (C drive) and is 40GB NTFS

and right next to it, it says the rest of my HD (258GB) is UNALLOCATED? How do I locate this into my second partition? I want it to be D drive.

My DVD-ROM is (D drive) and it says that it is a primary partition... How do I change this to E drive?

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10/23/07 at 12:32am
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Alright I went into Disk Management and I see:

Disk 0 (basic) is my (C drive) and is 40GB NTFS

and right next to it, it says the rest of my HD (258GB) is UNALLOCATED? How do I locate this into my new drive? I want it to be D drive.

My DVD-ROM is (D drive) and it says that it is a primary partition... How do I change this to E drive?

..
You got the same problem i had.

Unallocated basically means something pry got messed up and a sys file got deleted on that partition and therefore Windows cant read it.

What i did was download a program called PC Inspector File Recovery. Run this program to detect all files on your entire hard drive and from there you can recover the files that are on the partition that Windows is not reading.

After you have recovered the files either save them all on DVDs or on your current partition and then you have to re-format the partition in Windows so that it can read it.

Its stressful, i know.
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10/23/07 at 12:38am
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Appreciate the quick reply. Rep+

How can that be though? I did the partitioning through Vista's setup?

Do you have a link for this PC Inspector program? If I do need to reformat do I need to reformat the C drive which already has Vista installed or just the unallocated drive?
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10/23/07 at 12:45am
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Appreciate the quick reply. Rep+

How can that be though? I did the partitioning through Vista's setup?

Do you have a link for this PC Inspector program? If I do need to reformat do I need to reformat the C drive which already has Vista installed or just the unallocated drive?
No, when your in Disk Management right click the unallocated drive and click format.

But dont click that until you have recovered all your files off of that parition, otherwise your sol:

http://www.pcinspector.de/Sites/file...htm?language=1

Make sure that you let that program run un-interupted so that it will locate every single file on your system..

Depending on drive size this may take up to 5 hours to locate that files and then another hour or so to copy and paste. If you dont have enough space on current partition it may be much slower going as you might have to copy and paste a little at a time then burn to DVDs.


Actually take a screenshot of what exactly disk managment is telling you so i can get a better idea.
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10/23/07 at 1:02am
Did you have anything on that drive to begin with? Sorry but I was not clear on whether you did or not. If you do not there is not need to do anything but reformat the unallocated space.

If you did have information you wanted on the disk your course of action will have to recover it in some fashion as {LSK}Otacon already mentioned.

Nothing got "messed up" except your understanding of what you were doing when you partioned the drive during the Vista install. It will only format the space allocated by the user i.e the 40GB partion you told it to make. The rest of the space will show up as unallocated in the disk managment snap-in b/c that is exactly what it is, space you did not allocate during the install. If you had information you wanted to keep the appropriate action would have been to partion the drive prior to the Vista install then go about installing Vista on said partion.
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10/23/07 at 1:08am
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