mykweb
14-03-2009, 11:14 AM
Good Morning
I wonder if you dudes can possibily help me with my issue that has been plagueing me for a few days now.
I have a custom built shuttle PC, with dual core 2.2Ghz, 2 gb ram, ati dual dvi graphics, 2 sata hard disks (160 and 250 GB).
I have an external hard disk enclosure made by sumvision, It contatins 2 500GB maxtor hard disks, This unit allows you to have the disks in a raid 1 configuration which duplicates the data between the two incase of a failure.
I used to have windows vista ultimate on my pc, as I was using a copy I had from work, as I work in an IT department I was testing some software etc before we roll it out. I installed it and everything was fine. I had this installed when I bought my external hard disk. I initilised the disks using disk manger, and formatted the full 500GB. Copied the data and all was fine.
A few weeks ago I removed vista becuase I wanted to go back to XP, i copied all my data off and deleted and formatted the partition Vista was on, Then installed XP pro.
Setup Xp and everything was fine.
However when I plug in any of my external hard disks they show in Disk Manager as being a Hidden NTFS partition.
I used acronis to remove the data off the disk, copied it to my hard disk on my pc. So i now have my data back. I then deleted the partition and erase the data- then create a new Primary Partition for the full 500GB. The disk formats and then shows as a full 480GB partition and assigns it a drive letter of X.
I then reboot the pc.......and the freshly hard disk partition which was visible......Is now Hidden again. I then need to delete the parition and repeat it again.
I have tried to use Partition Magic to activate and Unhide the Partition. However you need a restart from PM to get it to activate....The same issue occours again....and again
Can anyone help or assist.
Mike
I wonder if you dudes can possibily help me with my issue that has been plagueing me for a few days now.
I have a custom built shuttle PC, with dual core 2.2Ghz, 2 gb ram, ati dual dvi graphics, 2 sata hard disks (160 and 250 GB).
I have an external hard disk enclosure made by sumvision, It contatins 2 500GB maxtor hard disks, This unit allows you to have the disks in a raid 1 configuration which duplicates the data between the two incase of a failure.
I used to have windows vista ultimate on my pc, as I was using a copy I had from work, as I work in an IT department I was testing some software etc before we roll it out. I installed it and everything was fine. I had this installed when I bought my external hard disk. I initilised the disks using disk manger, and formatted the full 500GB. Copied the data and all was fine.
A few weeks ago I removed vista becuase I wanted to go back to XP, i copied all my data off and deleted and formatted the partition Vista was on, Then installed XP pro.
Setup Xp and everything was fine.
However when I plug in any of my external hard disks they show in Disk Manager as being a Hidden NTFS partition.
I used acronis to remove the data off the disk, copied it to my hard disk on my pc. So i now have my data back. I then deleted the partition and erase the data- then create a new Primary Partition for the full 500GB. The disk formats and then shows as a full 480GB partition and assigns it a drive letter of X.
I then reboot the pc.......and the freshly hard disk partition which was visible......Is now Hidden again. I then need to delete the parition and repeat it again.
I have tried to use Partition Magic to activate and Unhide the Partition. However you need a restart from PM to get it to activate....The same issue occours again....and again
Can anyone help or assist.
Mike