2 partitions missing

[Phil K]

One of my HD's is only half-seen by 7- two partitions are absent. Oh, they're on Computer management, but no letter and not listed.
Any way I can get 7 to see the missing partitions ? When I go back to Vista, they're all present and correct !

 

[Thrax]

Right click on the partitions in disk management, hit "change drive letters and path," then assign a drive letter.

 

[Phil K]

Right click on the partitions in disk management, hit "change drive letters and path," then assign a drive letter.

No - tried that already, doesn't work. Only "Format" is an option. Needless to say, I'm not going to do that.
Another HD has a partition missing too.
(I have 3 - all partitioned)

 

[Thrax]

That's bizarre as hell. Can you post a screencap of your disk management MMC snapin, please?

 

[Phil K]

I'm getting this (att) but no amount of "refreshing" or restarting is doing a blind bit of difference.

Actually, couple of other things - Windows Mail won't open (although that could be Avast which is on my Vista needs to be on 7 too) and the download speeds from the net are atrocious. A tenth what they are on Vista

 

[Thrax]

Try using diskpart:

1. Start a CMD.EXE session as administrator.
2. Type DISKPART and hit [enter].
3. List your hard drives by typing list disk and hitting [enter].
4. Once you have identified the hard drive with the partition that won't take a letter, type select disk # (where # is the disk number) and hit [enter].
5. Now type list partition to show all the partitions on the disk, and press [enter].
6. Identify the partition you want to give a letter to based on its capacity, then type select partition # (where # is the partition number) to select the partition and press [enter].
7. Now you can give the partition a letter by typing assign letter=X (where X is your chosen volume letter) and pressing [enter].

Hopefully that will get you on track and nudge your MMC snapin in the right direction. I hope this helps.

 

[Phil K]

Keeps saying "no volume specified please try again"
No matter how often I do it, it refuses to see it, even though its listed in cmd

Nope tried again and again, just refuses to do it.
Yet they're both there, quite happily on Vista

 

[Thrax]

Can you post a screenshot of your command prompt when you get to the step where you try and assgin a letter?

 

[Phil K]

Can you post a screenshot of your command prompt when you get to the step where you try and assgin a letter?

Will do
Also from the disk management thing
Lots of partitions, for a good reason, really !
Roman Names (apart from E: ) because I'm obsessed with Roman History - and E; isn't because I've always had an E: with that name, and wont change !

 

[Thrax]

Instead of "select partition 1," try the command "select volume 1" and continue as my steps outline.

 

[Phil K]

Instead of "select partition 1," try the command "select volume 1" and continue as my steps outline.

Thought it had worked, as it said it had - but logged off, rebooted, still the same.

 

[Phil K]

Strangely, I went to put the new release candidate on, it apparently failed, went on the 7 that I was having problems with, it said it was updating and - bingo, everything there as should be.
No partitions missing
Weird, eh ?