Windows Re-install

[darkewaffle]

My roomie was having some problems with his laptop the last few days, and it came down to it that he had to re-install Windows (XP MCE). It seems to be working fine for him, except his hard drive was/is partitioned into essentially a section for his OS and then another section for data/storage. Now, Windows is working fine and he has full access to the OS partition, but he is unable to navigate to the data/storage partition through My Computer or anything like that. Windows Disk Management recognizes the partition however, but it is classified as a healthy "unknown partition" and he can't access anything stored there. What can we do to try to make Windows recognize this partition?

 

[Nocturnal]

He's going to have to use some type of data recovery program to get the data off of there. That's a problem I've run into before and 9/10 times the data is actually there but with no way to get to it without some sort of data recovery program, your friend is going to be out of luck.

 

[Googer]

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