SkylineRB26DETT Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 I have a seemingly good drive that will not show one partition in windows... I tried right-clicking on it and 'change the drive letter', but it will not let me. It says the screen has not been refreshed, but I tried it a few times. I cycled the power too. In testdisk it shows up...Now...the bootsectors are identical on the partition that doesn't show up, but on the partition that shows up they are not...So I do a rebuild BS...Here is the dump (you can see the different byte at 0028)...So I do a rebuild again...So now they're identical , but the HP partition still does not show up. I can list and navigate through all the files in testdisk and I also copied the partition to another drive using testdisk. Any idea why it's not showing up (getting a drive letter assigned)? I attached sectors 0 of the drive and partition in a zip file.sector0.zip Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 3, 2010 Share Posted September 3, 2010 (edited) Now...the bootsectors are identical on the partition that doesn't show up, but on the partition that shows up they are not......So I do a rebuild BS...In other words, basically since you cannot fix the partition that cannot be seen/mounted, you decide to "fiddle" with the working one (that maybe should be defined as "the one working BEFORE" )RULE #1: If ain't broke don't fix it!RULE #2: If item #A is broken, "fixing" item #B won't usually have any effect on item #AI'll check the files and let you know if I find anything "queer" (besides your repairing approach )jaclaz Edited September 4, 2010 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 4, 2010 Share Posted September 4, 2010 (edited) At first sight the MBR and Bootsector seem like allright.It's an HP (laptop ) using a "PC Angel" recovery system (the MBR CODE is one of those peculiar ones that allow F11 for recovery partition), see here:http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=131620but the actual DATA seems "normal".It could be some settings in the Registry.Can you try attaching the disk to another system?Can you check the output of MOUNTVOL?Can you try running ddlistw?http://www.boot-land.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=8219Can you post the whole bootsector fo the partition (first 16 sectors of the partition)?jaclaz Edited September 4, 2010 by jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SkylineRB26DETT Posted September 5, 2010 Author Share Posted September 5, 2010 Well it seems to have corrected itself...I connected it externally and it came up fine with both partitions.Then I connected it internally again and now both come up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jaclaz Posted September 5, 2010 Share Posted September 5, 2010 Well it seems to have corrected itself...I connected it externally and it came up fine with both partitions.Then I connected it internally again and now both come up. Well, no. Things don't get fixed by themselves (unfortunately).Most probably *something* got entangled within the MountManager/Registry, which with a disconnect/reboot/reconnect is resolved (in other words nothing needed to be fixed on the actual HD, only in the OS, most probably Vista )jaclaz Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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