[Help] Partitions of WIndows 7 Ultimate not showing

[blazeblaze456]

In my windows 7 Ultimate, only c drive is showing and all other drives are not showing.I was having C,D,E,F,G drives but in disk mgmt all are merged into C drive.Also in "My computer" after drive letter C directly H:\ (DVD RW Drive) is showing.I have uploaded the "disk storage","My Computer" snapshots.Plz help can I recover all the drives D,E,F,G? Also all the programs of C drive are intact.

Plz help

[kn_andre]

Don't Fret Dear, help is on the way .. Though am not an Expert Geek, but i can Assure you that there are more Experts here than other Forums and they will Gladly guide you through the Steps that you will take to Fix it ... Just be Patient and wait a Bit till some of them come online here, and when they see this your Post, they will sure give you the Best Solution ... So, Please hold on a Bit, bearing in Mind that today is Sunday and some will have some Prior Engagements to attend to first before coming online in the Forums.... Hopefully, before the day ends you would have gotten it fixed and have a big Smile of Gratitude on your Face ..... Am sorry for what your going through ... Take care and stay close to this Thread ... Cheers ..

[geeteam]

Hehehe long talk @kn_andre, well @blazeblaze456 I don't really get it well but if you can vividly explain exactly what happened, you will get quicker responses and solution. But I will recommend if you can try 3rd party disk management software for the meantime

[eurobyn]

maybe you need to install the sata controller drivers again ?

goto to system and check if all the drivers are in place .

[Dodel]

Use something like Active@ Partition Recovery Toolkit http://www.nsaneforums.com/topic/205805-active-partition-recovery-toolkit-10021/?hl=%2Bpartition#entry736044, and see if the partitions are still listed. Your C:\ is showing 35gb so I do belive that they still exist, and have not merged into one, or it would have consolidated the free space.

It could be that for some reason they have been set to hidden from the OS (quite a feat), using the above app should help diagnose your issue, you should also be able to set the partitions as active, if they have been hidden somehow.

Edit : Is this a new install ?

Regards

Dodel.

Edited February 9, 2014 by Dodel

[SlimRock]

Don't Fret Dear, help is on the way .. Though am not an Expert Geek, but i can Assure you that there are more Experts here than other Forums and they will Gladly guide you through the Steps that you will take to Fix it ... Just be Patient and wait a Bit till some of them come online here, and when they see this your Post, they will sure give you the Best Solution ... So, Please hold on a Bit, bearing in Mind that today is Sunday and some will have some Prior Engagements to attend to first before coming online in the Forums.... Hopefully, before the day ends you would have gotten it fixed and have a big Smile of Gratitude on your Face ..... Am sorry for what your going through ... Take care and stay close to this Thread ... Cheers ..

nsane is not a chat forum! where is the information here? ;)

[Dodel]

nsane is not a chat forum! where is the information here? ;)

Technically it IS :p

[XilizaX]

In my windows 7 Ultimate, only c drive is showing and all other drives are not showing.I was having C,D,E,F,G drives but in disk mgmt all are merged into C drive.Also in "My computer" after drive letter C directly H:\ (DVD RW Drive) is showing.I have uploaded the "disk storage","My Computer" snapshots.Plz help can I recover all the drives D,E,F,G? Also all the programs of C drive are intact.

Plz help

GIve more information, what did you done before this happening. any installation ?

use a system restore if is possible.

[stylemessiah]

TestDisk

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

[masterupc]

Try this:

UBCD->PartedMagic->GParted

Unhide your partitions or repair the partition info.

GL.

[blazeblaze456]

I was trying to format my pen drive using novicorp app but suddenly while formatting the machine restarted and message was displayed :

"Your hardware has changed u need to repair it using installation media Windows can't start" Also it was showing boot error.So I used win 7 Ultimate iso and clicked on repair option then machine restarted but only C:\ drive was showing.

[dMog]

35 gigs on your C drive and that is all that is showing??...try gparted to recover lost drives... you may have formatted all your other drives??

[blazeblaze456]

Dude using Active Partition Recovery I got all drives showing but not able to recover it is showing that "Found volume is overlapped with C:\" Whats the solution for this???

[blazeblaze456]

Snapshot of overlapped partition:

Edited February 9, 2014 by blazeblaze456

[Dodel]

User testdisk from stylemessiah's post, and repair the MFT.

[Blackchildcx]

This solution should help...

http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

unhide all partions !!

How to Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7/Vista/xp

To do this task you need administrator privilege

Hiding a partition or volume from my computer or explorer is preventing that partition from displaying, but it doesn't mean erasing any data or deleting the volume. Windows OS Disk management system allows hiding drives except the System drive where the OS is installed and the System reserved volume. So, anyone who has administrative privilege or the administrator of the Windows machine can do this task. And the basic trick is, without any drive letter (Ex: C:, D:, E: etc.) Windows OS doesn't recognize any drive or partition and here we are going to remove that letter temporally.

How to hide a drive:
1. Click right mouse on the computer and select Manage. Select the disk management under storage from the left pane. Or, you can also get the Disk management typing diskmgmt.msc in the run and pressing enter.

2. From there click right-mouse on which drive you want to hide and select Change Drive Letters and Paths.

3. Now select remove. Don’t worry! This action just removes the drive letter.

4. Pressing on the Remove a warning message will be shown and accept it by clicking on yes. It’s just telling you that all programs installed on that drive won’t work or this drive is opened by another program.

It’s done! Your selected drive is hidden now.

The hidden drive won’t be appearing to the administrator of the OS unless it is unbidden.

How to unhide the drive:
1. Open the Disk Management.You should be able doing this;-)

2. Right mouse click on the drive which is hidden/removed. Tips: the hidden drive doesn’t contain any drive letter.

3. Choose the Change Drive Letters and Paths and select Add to add drive letter or path to the hidden drive.

4. At last choose a drive letter to assign the drive/partition and press on OK. Wow! The hidden partition is displayed in an explorer or my computer.

That's it! No data is lost or damage. Even the installed files are working again without any errors. From now you shouldn't need any extra software to hide or unhide your PC's drives

good luck...for more help PM

hope that helped!

Edited February 9, 2014 by Blackchildcx

[masterupc]

It's better if you try to fix it outside windows enviroment, that's why I suggested you UBCD.

There are more utilities to fix all the problems w/o losing data.

GL!

[LOQUILLO]

Please translate this, for me is too much easy sayit in spanish, ok: En primer lugar no has explicado si solo es un solo disco duro con varias particiones o son varios discos duros con varias particiones. Luego saber si en caso fuese un solo disco duro con varias particiones lógicas, entonces ha perdido consistencia ese sistema de particionado por lo tanto se hicieron invisibles o simplemente están en formato RAW. Que puedes hacer?: usar Knoppix Live CD para poder ver tus particiones y recuperar la data. Cuando hayas terminado de recuperar tu información procede a crear, nuevamente, las particiones, te recomiendo tener dos particiones por disco duro y deberían ser "primarias", ahora tienes una que es C: y te faltaría crear otra llamada D:. La experiencia me ha enseñado a no tener muchas particiones logicas en un solo disco duro, pues apenas se daña la primera (Partición Primaria) todas las demás se ven afectados.

Para poder recuperar o salvar tu data existente en las "particiones invisibles" te sugiero que uses otro disco duro interno o externo. Nunca intentes recuperar en el mismo disco duro dañado.

Edited February 9, 2014 by LOQUILLO

[locoJoe]

Dude using Active Partition Recovery I got all drives showing but not able to recover it is showing that "Found volume is overlapped with C:\" Whats the solution for this???

Here is something you should read: http://partition-recovery.com/answer1tech.html

good luck

Edited February 9, 2014 by locoJoe

[blazeblaze456]

This solution should help...

http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

unhide all partions !!

How to Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7/Vista/xp

To do this task you need administrator privilege

Hiding a partition or volume from my computer or explorer is preventing that partition from displaying, but it doesn't mean erasing any data or deleting the volume. Windows OS Disk management system allows hiding drives except the System drive where the OS is installed and the System reserved volume. So, anyone who has administrative privilege or the administrator of the Windows machine can do this task. And the basic trick is, without any drive letter (Ex: C:, D:, E: etc.) Windows OS doesn't recognize any drive or partition and here we are going to remove that letter temporally.

How to hide a drive:

1. Click right mouse on the computer and select Manage. Select the disk management under storage from the left pane. Or, you can also get the Disk management typing diskmgmt.msc in the run and pressing enter.

2. From there click right-mouse on which drive you want to hide and select Change Drive Letters and Paths.

3. Now select remove. Don’t worry! This action just removes the drive letter.

4. Pressing on the Remove a warning message will be shown and accept it by clicking on yes. It’s just telling you that all programs installed on that drive won’t work or this drive is opened by another program.

It’s done! Your selected drive is hidden now.

The hidden drive won’t be appearing to the administrator of the OS unless it is unbidden.

How to unhide the drive:

1. Open the Disk Management.You should be able doing this;-)

2. Right mouse click on the drive which is hidden/removed. Tips: the hidden drive doesn’t contain any drive letter.

3. Choose the Change Drive Letters and Paths and select Add to add drive letter or path to the hidden drive.

4. At last choose a drive letter to assign the drive/partition and press on OK. Wow! The hidden partition is displayed in an explorer or my computer.

That's it! No data is lost or damage. Even the installed files are working again without any errors. From now you shouldn't need any extra software to hide or unhide your PC's drives

good luck...for more help PM

hope that helped!

Dude I tried with the solution you give but it is giving me following msg (given in snapshot)

[blazeblaze456]

This solution should help...

http://www.easeus.com/partition-recovery/

unhide all partions !!

How to Hide or Unhide Hard Disk Partition in Windows 7/Vista/xp

To do this task you need administrator privilege

Hiding a partition or volume from my computer or explorer is preventing that partition from displaying, but it doesn't mean erasing any data or deleting the volume. Windows OS Disk management system allows hiding drives except the System drive where the OS is installed and the System reserved volume. So, anyone who has administrative privilege or the administrator of the Windows machine can do this task. And the basic trick is, without any drive letter (Ex: C:, D:, E: etc.) Windows OS doesn't recognize any drive or partition and here we are going to remove that letter temporally.

How to hide a drive:

1. Click right mouse on the computer and select Manage. Select the disk management under storage from the left pane. Or, you can also get the Disk management typing diskmgmt.msc in the run and pressing enter.

2. From there click right-mouse on which drive you want to hide and select Change Drive Letters and Paths.

3. Now select remove. Don’t worry! This action just removes the drive letter.

4. Pressing on the Remove a warning message will be shown and accept it by clicking on yes. It’s just telling you that all programs installed on that drive won’t work or this drive is opened by another program.

It’s done! Your selected drive is hidden now.

The hidden drive won’t be appearing to the administrator of the OS unless it is unbidden.

How to unhide the drive:

1. Open the Disk Management.You should be able doing this;-)

2. Right mouse click on the drive which is hidden/removed. Tips: the hidden drive doesn’t contain any drive letter.

3. Choose the Change Drive Letters and Paths and select Add to add drive letter or path to the hidden drive.

4. At last choose a drive letter to assign the drive/partition and press on OK. Wow! The hidden partition is displayed in an explorer or my computer.

That's it! No data is lost or damage. Even the installed files are working again without any errors. From now you shouldn't need any extra software to hide or unhide your PC's drives

good luck...for more help PM

hope that helped!

Dude I tried with the solution you give but it is giving me following msg (given in snapshot)

[blazeblaze456]

Successfully recovered all partitions.I followed simple steps as all drives were overlapped with C:\ drive:

1.I created partitions initially EAsus Partition Master.For size I was having rough idea about size of drive.

2.EAsus partition recovery I ticked lost drives and clicked on Recover.

Bingo I got all my drives . :showoff:

[Blackchildcx]

Successfully recovered all partitions.I followed simple steps as all drives were overlapped with C:\ drive:

1.I created partitions initially EAsus Partition Master.For size I was having rough idea about size of drive.

2.EAsus partition recovery I ticked lost drives and clicked on Recover.

Bingo I got all my drives . :showoff:

thats great

[geeteam]

finally fixed, - you won't thank the team, who help in any other way by posting something here. well I guess the thread can be closed now.