Windows 7 Not Seeing Other Partitions

For some reason, when booting into my partition containing the Windows 7 Beta, none of my other partitions are seen. The operating systems contained on those partitions are still found in the boot options menu are still present, so I know they're there and working. Any ideas?

 

You need to go into the partition manager (type in search bar) and assign them letters.

 

Ah, thanks

 

Yeah, same thing happened to me. Installed Win 7 on a second partition (D drive) and when I booted it up, it didnt show my Vista C drive and labeled its own drive as C instead. I reinstalled and at least it recognized the Vista partition the 2nd time (but its still labeling it incorrectly as D )

 

The drive that the operating system is running off of must be the C: drive.

It isn't an incorrect label, whatever partition is currently running appears as C:.

Greg

 

Ah, cool. I was wondering about this after it saw four out of my five partitions, but not Partition 0 (my XP install, which also had a few files on it I wanted to utilize). The drive letters were a bit different from their XP drive letters, too, but probably nothing that can't be fixed with the configuration utilities.

As for the C:\ requirement, that may apply to Vista/Seven. But I've had XP running when its own drive was D:\ (as reported by both itself and the other OS installed) before with no problems, and recognizing another drive as C:\.

 

Hmm, weird.

So in my [original] XP install, C: is my main/XP partition, D: is my DVD drive, E: is my Daemon drive, and F: is my Windows 7 partition.

But in my 7 install, C: is my Windows 7 partition, D: is still my DVD drive, and E: now is my main/XP partition. Weird. Can this be "fixed"?

Thanks for the help though.

 

I was like what's going on then I figure it out. I guess we will see if it get fix before RC1

 

Just stumbled on this thread via google, hopefully someone can help me out.

I have a similar problem but when I'm in 'Disk Management' I can see my
partitions, but when I right-click on one, it only says it can only
'Delete Volume' which I don't really want to do.

Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Reuben

 

i disabled drive labeling in explorer so i don't see any of those stone-old labels..

partition naming stays per partition (or disk), and is a full, qualifyable name like "Data", or "Memorystick". much better than the stupid letters (F: C , and consistent over all os that access them.

 

Do you reckon renaming them could help me? How exactly do you do it?

 

I like to think that 7 not "seeing" my other partitions keeps me from fouling things up. As so many have said, it's a beta version for a reason.

EDIT/Help request:
I fouled things up by assigning a drive letter to my Xp partition while in windows 7. All seemed well (i had access to everything I wanted) until I wanted to boot into XP. It seems that when I assigned the drive letter in 7, it would mess up something so I couldn't boot into XP. Problem was fixed by deleting the .ini file (ezbcd saved my butt) for windows 7. XP booted and no damage.

Now, a few questions:

1) Did I do something wrong when I assigned my XP drive a letter?

2) How do I keep from doing this again?

3) Anybody else have the same problem?

Thanks in advance for any replies. I'm a little new at dual booting Windows. Thanks to all here on NBR, I haven't had any trouble recovering from my own stupidity.

 

Just make sure to label XP as your boot partition. I did the same thing and I just used Gparted to make sure I labeled as the boot one

 

No matter what I do I can't get xp to boot properly after I assign it a drive letter in windows 7. I did use Gparted to make sure it was labeled as the boot partition. When I lose access to XP, easyBCD is my only way out.

Does anyone have the faintest idea as to what I am doing wrong, or am i fighting with a phantom bug here?

Thanks in advance for the help.

Edit: Ok, in attempt to figure out EXACTLY what the problem is, I re-loaded Windows 7 and without doing ANYTHING else, I assigned my main partition a drive letter. Surprise! everything is fine. That means that my problem may have come from a piece of software. Anybody else have any ideas? Can easyBCD kick all this up?

 

Is this, by any chance, an ntldr corruption problem? This article saved my butt. The problem only started when I renamed, using EasyBCD, my XP boot to "Windows XP" [from "Earlier version of Windows"]. Assigning a drive letter to my XP partition in Windows 7 did not seem to trigger the problem though...