Lost the drive letter D for my recovery partition...
I'm sorry if this is a duplicate but I don't believe my last posting sent...
I lost my drive letter for my D recovery partition. It no longer shows in
Windows Explorer. When I go to Administrative Tools > Computer Management >
Disk Management I see the 10.6G used partition but with no letter. I tried
to assign a letter to it but I get an error message "The operation failed to
complete because the disk management console view is not up to date... to
refresh or restart the computer. I did but to no avail, I get the same
message.
I believe this has something to do with the partition table as I tried to
load an older copy of Partition magic from a floppy. That's when I got the
error stating something about the partition table then the program failed to
load. Is there a way I can fix the partition table to see my D drive again
if this is the problem? Thanks so much! Lee Lord
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Lee Lord
Re: Lost the drive letter D for my recovery partition...
Hey, guys! There IS A SOLUTION to the problem. I just went through it...
I used the goddamn Partition Magic too. Fixed the damned errors... It deleted my recovery partition.
Man, I was SCARED! And then I saw Your thread... I panicked! Tried a lot of different software - didn't help.
After Googling for awhile, I found a very nice tool, called TestDisk. I used it in one of the steps to recovery...
Recovery Process:
- What You'll need:
+Acronis Disk Director Suite [newest]
+TestDisk [You will need the one for Windows. duh!]
- Steps to RECOVERY:
1. Install Acronis & TestDisk
2. Run TestDisk. GO: Create A log File->[Select your HD]->Choose "Analyze"
3. It will show you the list of partitions. The main, where Ur Vista is located & another one[HP_RECOVERY]. Press "Quick Search"[Enter button]
4. It will ask if it's Vista partition[or smth similar]. press Y.
5. You will see the list of partitions again. [in my case, the color was green. If it's red - something's wrong.]
6. NOW you can edit the partition TYPES
7. Highlight the deleted partition. Press LEFT-RIGHT arrows until the TYPE changes to "D" - DELETED
8. Apply changes & restart computer.
9. Run Acronis Disk Director Suite, Select "recover Partitions" [or "Acronis recovery Expert"]
10. Follow the instructions in it. After It's done shut down ACRONIS, let it finish all the work & reboot.
11. Voila! - Now Your partition is back! :) [At least in my case was...]
I hope it works for others too :)
Re: Lost the drive letter D for my recovery partition...
thanks DrAcid!It' working verry well!Thank u , dude.....