Lost some Volumes !!!

[rirusstek2]

I have this 1TB SATA disk drive that had 3 volumes in it. Now all of the sudden I only see one volume !!!

When I goto properties and POPULATE only one volume shows up.

Here is the pic of that volume

Any ideas??

 

[rirusstek2]

Now I loggen- in with WinXP which in on that Volume and I can see the other two Volumes like this

The volumes don't show up though with the Windows Explorer either.

ANy Ideas??

 

[rirusstek2]

I have used WD Lifeguard and it all PASSED. Now I got that the volumes are HIDDEN !!! Now how did this happen?? a virus?

Here is the picture:

How can I get it back?

Thanks for any help!!

I have Windows 7 64 and WinXP 32 on the PC.

 

[rirusstek2]

In Disk Management I get these ...

 

[rirusstek2]

I recovered them !!! both Partitions

I used Partition Manager and THEY CAME BACK.

However ... How do you guys think that this happened?

Also, all my restore points WERE GONE !!!

Hummm ... any thoughts?

 

[flyboytim]

Restore points have gone because you are dual booting XP and Windows 7. IN XP, turn off system restore for the windows 7 volume, and vice versa.

What is the filesystem for the "lost" volumes? If Linux, then Windows 7 ignores them since they are not readable to the OS.

Windows 7 has removed the drive letters thus hiding them.

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[rirusstek2]

Allright !!! Now I see why my Restore Points Were Gone. Will remember to turn off System Restore before switching OS.

No Linux involved here, these volumes that were hidden are for Win7/WinXP, same as the one that didn't get erased on that same Hard Drive.

Why then did Windows 7 remove the Drive Letter?

Thank you flyboytim for the help on understanding what happened!!

 

[flyboytim]

Windows 7 may remove the drive letters again in the future, if, for instance, you need to repair boot or start-up problems.

Why does 7 do it? I don't know for certain. Windows 7 hides SYSTEM RESERVED volumes, created at by Windows 7 at installation time, and as I've said, Linux and other partitions it does not understand. That's reasonable, but I like to unhide the system volume. Among other things, I put the XP recovery console on there. Your partition manager may be able to add the drive letters. Easeus Partition Master can.

On multiboot Windows machines, I always create a small 2-3 GB swap volume so that I can put any Windows pagefiles and crash dumps on that volume - they do not interfere with defragmentation that way. Windows 7 never seems to hide that volume. All the OSs use the same pagefile.sys without complaint. You may wish to try to place your swapfile on one of the problem volumes.

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