Re: Windows xp cannot see all partitions on external drive

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I have an external hard drive with multiple paritions. XP home with SP-2
has not trouble seening all of them.

Can any PC running XP see the other partitions?
Can your PC see the drives, if you boot into LINUX directly from a KNOPPIX
CD (or DVD)? Link to KNOPPIX, free download, does NOT write to your hard
drive: http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html
How about another PC running LINUX?

If no PC and/or OS can see the partitions, then there is something wrong
with the partition table on the external drive. Delete paritions and try
again. I use ParitionMagic to create paritions and format, but the XP disk
managment tools should also be able to do this.

If another XP box can see them, but not yours, then there is something wrong
with your XP configuration, or PC hardware/software (i.e., drivers) related
to the external hard drive.

If LINUX can see them, but not XP (any XP box), then perhaps the format is
not XP-compatible.


"Wiseman" <wiseman@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:ONIyf59aIHA.1132@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Have two hard drives in a Windows XP OS PC, both drives have six
partitions.
Total of"drives**"seen by XP is 15.
Drives(**partitions and dvd writers)are all partitions on both internal
hard drives and only one(first partition)on the external drive.
External drive has six partitions.
So even with all three drives and the two dvd writers it still comes
within the max number of drive letters you can have.
Anyone know why windows cannot see anymore than one partition on the
external drive?
There was no problem before in all partitions on it being seen.
The only changes have been reducing 10 partitions to six on that drive.




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