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    Parition Maigc stole my partition, now I can't access it

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by latestgood, May 25, 2008.

  1. latestgood

    latestgood Notebook Consultant

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    Hello,

    I recently merged two partition in my hard drive. I also had external hard drive connected to my laptop. After I merged two partition, I can not get into my hard drive. When I plug in my external hard drive, the computer sees that there is usb hard drive but there is no partition under my computer. I'm thinking that partition magic hided my external hard drive. I tried to connect my external hard drive to different computer without any success. Is there a program that unhides my partition?

    Thank you
     
    latestgood, May 25, 2008
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  2. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    You can boot into a linux/gparted live cd and manage the flags and make sure it's not set to be hidin.
     
    Thomas, May 25, 2008
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  3. nobscot6

    nobscot6 Wise One

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    uummm, did you say partition magic?? I hope you weren't using Vista....

    do as Thomas said, or try Paragon Part. Man or Acronis Disk Director>> trials....

    EDIT--> WHAT OS my friend??? Vista is NTFS....... Partition Magic no workie w/ Vista.
     
    nobscot6, May 25, 2008
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  4. Thomas

    Thomas McLovin

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    gParted is my personal fav.
    It's fast, free, and downloadable.
     
    Thomas, May 25, 2008
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  5. andyasselin

    andyasselin Notebook Deity

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    go into disk mangement is the usb hard disk assign driver letter?


    also do it show it format as ntfs or fat32 and show it heatly?
     
    andyasselin, May 25, 2008
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