Reinstalled WinXp No longer recgonizing Partitions

[tRaptor]

Friend of mine has reinstalled winXP and it no longer sees his multiple partitions. I have no idea what to do. I tried partition magic it saees the drive as 40GB but not the partitions. Windows Disk Manager and explorer just see it as one 9GB disk.

Like i said i dont know what to try (im to scared) but im open to all help

Thanks in Advance guy's

~tyler

 

[Whitedog]

Then he deleted all the partitions when he reinstalled the OS. If it is showing a single 40GB partition (and that's the size of his disk) then that's what he formatted it at during installation.

Oh well. Be careful next time.

BTW... if you HAVE multiple partitions on a disk and go to reinstall XP... IF you delete the system partition during setup and recreate it to install the OS on, it makes that partition the "Boot" partition and the next available partition the "System" partition...
SO... DON'T delete and recreate your partition if you are re-installing XP if you don't want it to make another partition the system.

The absolute best way to install (or reinstall) XP is using a "BLANK" unpartitioned disk during setup. Otherwise you risk getting a screwed up installation... as in this case.

My .02

 

[johnlog]

WhiteDog,

I installed XP Pro on my system and it recognized my 5 partitions right away. If your hard drive is partitioned already do not let XP reformat and/or remove any partitions at all. Make sure your C: partition is large enough to install and handle XP.

with Partition Magic 8 he should be able to create new partitions on his hard drive without any loss of data.