Removed some drive Letters, now no disks in diskmgmt (XP)

[wsaenotsock]

I just had a strange problem that I think I might have caused by removing drive letters (was the last thing I changed). The next time I opened diskmgmt, my disk isn't showing up in the Disk Management console, and none of the 4 NTFS partitions are listed.

In XP, I was removing drive lettering on a backup (non-OS) storage partition, and a windows 7 partition. System Reserved had no drive letter already. The fourth partition was the XP installation (C) which was unchanged. All The partitions are still on the disk, obviously, according to EasyBCD (which failed to read the boot information when I opened the program).

Perhaps removing the drive letters did more than just a cosmetic change I was imagining and some important configuration data was erased.
Has anyone run into this before or have an idea of what's going on?

 

[postaled]

I just had a strange problem that I think I might have caused by removing drive letters (was the last thing I changed). The next time I opened diskmgmt, my disk isn't showing up in the Disk Management console, and none of the 4 NTFS partitions are listed.

In XP, I was removing drive lettering on a backup (non-OS) storage partition, and a windows 7 partition. System Reserved had no drive letter already. The fourth partition was the XP installation (C) which was unchanged. All The partitions are still on the disk, obviously, according to EasyBCD (which failed to read the boot information when I opened the program).

Perhaps removing the drive letters did more than just a cosmetic change I was imagining and some important configuration data was erased.
Has anyone run into this before or have an idea of what's going on?

Is this a second hard drive?

 

[wsaenotsock]

it's all 1 drive

 

[wsaenotsock]

I'm gonna call it a night for now. Lesson learned is don't mess with things that can modify partition info on outdated operating systems.

Apparently, the Windows 7 BCD was made invalid or erased by messing with the drive letters in XP. I was able to make windows 7 bootable again using the recovery CD. From inside Win7 I loaded EasyBCD and added an XP boot record.