sekhar8993
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I am using Vista Home Premium. I have 340GB HD, which is partitioned into 3 parts. One is C. Second one was D. I had dual boot enabled, with OpenSuSE running in it, which I removed yesterday. All was fine and I was able to boot just with Windows without Grub boot loader. In Disk management application, I could see the partition - where SuSE was there earlier, as Free Space.
C drive is 64.5GB, D drive is 97.7GB. Both are NTFS. and Free space is 173 GB.
So far so good. Then instead of trying to create a new Drive/partition in the 173 GB Free space, I tried to extend the existing D Drive using PartitionMagic and somewhere in the process, I lost my D Drive
I can no longer see D Drive in my Explorer (
Currently, I can still see old D drive as a partition, in blue color in Disk management software, indicating that it is a Primary partition. But I am not able to assign any Drive letter to it. Diska Management app does not show me the properties for this partition. I get this error "Operation failed to complete because the Disk management console view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using refresh task. If the problem persists close the Disk Manage,ent console, and then restart Disk Management or restart computer".
Restarting did not help.
Third party tools, like Active UnEraser etc are able to detect this partition as NTFS and also able to find all the files in this. So I am assuming by data is in there still.
Something gone bad with Partition Table or Volume Table or some such. I don't clearly understand the disctinction between Volumes and Partitions (esp when everything is in the same Physical Disk!).
Help me!
-Sekhar
C drive is 64.5GB, D drive is 97.7GB. Both are NTFS. and Free space is 173 GB.
So far so good. Then instead of trying to create a new Drive/partition in the 173 GB Free space, I tried to extend the existing D Drive using PartitionMagic and somewhere in the process, I lost my D Drive
I can no longer see D Drive in my Explorer (Currently, I can still see old D drive as a partition, in blue color in Disk management software, indicating that it is a Primary partition. But I am not able to assign any Drive letter to it. Diska Management app does not show me the properties for this partition. I get this error "Operation failed to complete because the Disk management console view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using refresh task. If the problem persists close the Disk Manage,ent console, and then restart Disk Management or restart computer".
Restarting did not help.
Third party tools, like Active UnEraser etc are able to detect this partition as NTFS and also able to find all the files in this. So I am assuming by data is in there still.
Something gone bad with Partition Table or Volume Table or some such. I don't clearly understand the disctinction between Volumes and Partitions (esp when everything is in the same Physical Disk!).
Help me!
-Sekhar