the bindlestiff
Joined: 21 Jan 2008
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 Posted: 01/21/08 - 16:35 Post subject: Second HDD partitions not shown |
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I am running Windows XP SP2 on a 2-yr old home-built computer. I have a 160GB SATA hard drive which is partitioned into a primary partition and an extended partition which is further divided into 11 logical partitions. I have just added another SATA drive (250GB) for additional data storage and backup. BIOS and Windows recognition of the new drive and NTFS formatting went OK. Both PartitionMagic and the Windows Disk Manager recognize the new drive. Originally, I had configured the new drive as an extended partition with a single 238GB logical partition. So far, so good. But if I divide this extended partiton into two smaller partitions (currently, one of 48GB and the other of 190GB), only the first partition appears in Windows Explorer under My Computer or in any "File Open" dialog box. I tried decreasing the size of the big partition, and tried making the first partition a prime and the second an extended, but that didn't help either.
However, all of the new partitions are shown by PartitionMagic and the Windows Disk Manager (and with the proper drive letters, too). Those partitions also show up in the Diskeeper deframenter and also can be accessed via the command prompt.
How do I convince Explorer to accept these new partitions and display them so I can access them?
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