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Cannot view 2nd partition in windows

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11/1/06 at 2:55am
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Heey all,

My laptop has been workin fine for a while but all of a sudden a few days ago, I went to log on after the screensaver, and the keyboard just didn't work. I had to hold down the power button to shut it down. then turned it back on. Long story short, I got an error message about a missing system file and had to reinstall xp on the c partition. Luckily, however, I had all my data on a separate partition, which still seems to be intact. But I cannot view it while in windows (it's labeled as hidden).

Now I do have a CD-- Hiren's Boot CD, with a bunch of DOS utilities, and I have been lookign for an answer with that. But I may have just messed it up worse, cuz I think I converted the D drive from a primary to logical partition. It still can't be viewed in windows. Can anyone help? I have windows working ok but all my music movies and files are on the D drive and I'm trying to access them.

does anyone know how I can change this drive to be accessible from windows? Cuz before the crash I had no problem accessing it.
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post #2 of 2
11/1/06 at 5:12pm
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Originally Posted by robbie d.
Heey all,

My laptop has been workin fine for a while but all of a sudden a few days ago, I went to log on after the screensaver, and the keyboard just didn't work. I had to hold down the power button to shut it down. then turned it back on. Long story short, I got an error message about a missing system file and had to reinstall xp on the c partition. Luckily, however, I had all my data on a separate partition, which still seems to be intact. But I cannot view it while in windows (it's labeled as hidden).

Now I do have a CD-- Hiren's Boot CD, with a bunch of DOS utilities, and I have been lookign for an answer with that. But I may have just messed it up worse, cuz I think I converted the D drive from a primary to logical partition. It still can't be viewed in windows. Can anyone help? I have windows working ok but all my music movies and files are on the D drive and I'm trying to access them.

does anyone know how I can change this drive to be accessible from windows? Cuz before the crash I had no problem accessing it.

when you reinstall windows, it may change the partition and label it differently, that why you can not see it. if you know for sure that you didn't not touch that partion, then use unbunto linux boot CD and look at the partition table.
when you boot up with unbunto linux cd go to c

Application > accessories > terminal

command prompt type as follow

sudo su -
then it will give you root prompts
type "fdisk /dev/hda" if you have sata drive then type in "fdisk /dev/sda" (without quote)
then in the fdisk menu hit p

look at the Id section and see what it read

for NTFS you have have it read as 86 or 87. you can also hit L to see the list of know partition. ti change partition ID you would it t and follow the instruction.
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