Partition gone invisible on Booting from OS CD

K

I have Windows XP Professional SP2 running on following hardware configuration,

Code:

Intel P4 3.4 GHz HT
Asus P5AD2 Premium Motherboard.
Segate SATA 120 GB HDD (FAT32 File system)

Previously 2 months back my another secondary Samsung 80 GB PATA HDD (FAT32 File system) failed and so I removed it. My system is working fine and I can see all my 6 (C:, D:, E:, F:, G:, H

partitions.

I thought of doing a clean install of OS and so I booted from my Windows XP CD and it shows that only 1 Partition is available with size of 114471 MB with 1683 MB free space. I can't see other partitions. When I tried to select the only availble partition, setup gave an error message that it is an unknown partition.

When I booted from System Works Recovery CD it shows all the partitions (Seems like Windows PE Environment).

But when I boot in to Windows Normally I can see all the partition. Scandisk and Norton Disc Doctor says that there are no errors.

Please help me.

Try any third party software like partition magic, partition Manager, etc. !!!

@kannan
U didnt mention how many partitions u hv?

And the BEST way will be repartition ur HDD, either by using FDISK or using PQMagic...

Vishal Gupta said:
@kannan
U didnt mention how many partitions u hv?

And the BEST way will be repartition ur HDD, either by using FDISK or using PQMagic...

FDISK is the worst of them all dont use it !!!

K

Guys I have edited the orginal master thread with the number of partitions info.

I am not ready to partition my hdd as I dont wanna loose data in other partitions.

Please suggest me some other methods.

K

Ok the problem is solved

I donno what solved the problem.

These are what I did,

1. Tried to run Norton Partion magic from bootable CD, it asked me to disable Norton GoBack.
2. So I disabled it.
3. Then on restarting I used the Seagate Diagnostic tools to check my HDD.
4. After restaring, the Norton GoBack Boot Mode deleted the Recovery Info as I disabled it.
5. After booting into Windows I could see that there were lot of changes. For ex there was this login screen. I could see changes in the desktop.
6. I booted again from OS CD and this time I could see all the partitions.

Seems like the Norton GoBack was interfering !.

Good to c that ur problem has been solved!

ENJOY!!!!

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