Can't access hard drive partition?

I put my laptop hard drive into my main computer because I'm trying to repair disk errors, but Windows can't mount the partition.

It's very similar to this:

http://www.blogsdna.com/2101/fix-missing-windows-xp-vista-hard-drive-partition-in-windows-7.htm

only the "Change letter" option is greyed out on my partition. It's an NTFS partition, but disk management can't recognize it (see attachment).

Does anyone know what I can do?

Thanks

 

I've never had this happen to me before.

See if DISKPART will assign a letter to it.


I doubt it thought. If disk management is being retarded, then DISKPART will probably crap out too.

 

Thanks

Code:

DISKPART> detail partition

Partition 4
Type  : C0
Hidden: Yes
Active: Yes
Offset in Bytes: 32243097600

There is no volume associated with this partition.

DISKPART>

Code:

DISKPART> assign

There is no volume specified.
Please select a volume and try again.

Code:

FUJITSU MJA2160BH FFS G1 ATA Device
Disk ID: BD853AA0
Type   : SATA
Status : Online
Path   : 5
Target : 0
LUN ID : 0
Location Path : PCIROOT(0)#PCI(1F02)#ATA(C05T00L00)
Current Read-only State : No
Read-only  : No
Boot Disk  : No
Pagefile Disk  : No
Hibernation File Disk  : No
Crashdump Disk  : No
Clustered Disk  : No

  Volume ###  Ltr  Label        Fs     Type        Size     Status     Info
  ----------  ---  -----------  -----  ----------  -------  ---------  --------
  Volume 2                             Partition    486 MB  Healthy    Offline

DISKPART>

It only recognizes the 2nd volume (the one in between my Mac partition and Windows partition)

Could the partition table be corrupt? How can I run a chkdsk without having access the the actual partition? Can I do it on the whole drive?

It's weird because my actual laptop has no trouble booting up drivers on that partition before it freezes on a specific .sys file. I guess the problems could be related.

Ideas?

 

Yeah, chkdsk isn't likely to fix it. Unfortunately this is when I usually when I just bust out the backups for the sake of time.

I'm out of ideas here.

 

Please explain this statement.

What do you mean MAC partition. Give us a little history on this machine. Hackintosh?

 

Can you mark partition as active by right clicking it?

 

No, it's from my Macbook. It's bootcamp that's not working. I'm guessing the fact that it is a (GPT partition? I'm not entirely sure about this) might have something to do with it.

I cannot.

By the way, the partition is marked as Microsoft Reserved (according to Gparted). Could that be preventing the partition from being mounted?

 

You don't think that maybe that was a critical piece of information when you posted this originally?

Wow, I am just stunned you didn't think that was important enough to mention it. So stunned, I just used more smilies in this one post than in all my other almost 3000 posts on this forum to convey my "stunnedness." Heck, I'm thinking of resigning in protest over this post.

When you have a mac that you set up boot camp on, you create a ntfs or fat partition, but the information about the partition is still in the MAC mbr, which windows cannot read.

You are not going to be able to do what you want this way.

I do not have a mac, and have never setup a mac + windows set up so I am completely speculating. I assume you ran chkdsk /f from a command prompt an rebooted your boot camp and that did not work? (Another piece of information that should have been in the original post.)

What I would try next is rebooting the bootcamp setup with a windows disk in the drive, using whatever key combination causes bootcamp to access the optical drive before the boot code, and try doing a chkdsk from the recovery console from the CD/DVD

Beyond that, I have no idea, but you would have a much better chance in a Mac forum if you post accurate and complete information.