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    « on: June 27, 2009, 01:20:44 AM »
    case solved...
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    Re: NTFS partition not visible..! plsss help....
    « Reply #1 on: June 27, 2009, 01:50:48 AM »
    If you have all of your data backed up then re-partition it.  It sounds like your partition table got smoked.
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      Re: NTFS partition not visible..! plsss help....
      « Reply #2 on: June 27, 2009, 01:56:50 AM »
      Hi.., thanks for the reply..
      Guess i was not understood properly...
      Data only on one of the partition has been backed up and the data on two of the partitions (that are not even visible) have not been backed up! and there is no way for me to do so cuz of the huge amount...!
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      Re: NTFS partition not visible..! plsss help....
      « Reply #3 on: June 27, 2009, 02:12:24 AM »
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      If you go into Administrative Tools>Computer Management>Disk Management will it show you the two missing partitions?  If so they may be salvageable.  Your backup options are pretty limited at this point.

      You could back up what you can see to an optical drive, or purchase another hard disk to install your OS on and then try recovering the data from there.

      NEVER run a backup to a partition on the same drive you are backing up, it's pointless.  You see why now.  ALWAYS back up to an alternate medium.
       
       
       
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        Re: NTFS partition not visible..! plsss help....
        « Reply #4 on: June 27, 2009, 02:20:27 AM »
        well., the two partitions are visible when i boot from the other HDD but not visible when booting from the same HDD itself......
        thats wat concerns me...
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        Re: NTFS partition not visible..! plsss help....
        « Reply #5 on: June 27, 2009, 02:22:17 AM »
        Then try to back them up using the other hard drive to access them, put them on optical media or yet another hard drive.

        Once you have backups made repartition the drive.
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          Re: NTFS partition not visible..! plsss help....
          « Reply #6 on: June 27, 2009, 02:30:25 AM »
          The data to be backed up is 100GB and the other HDD hardly has less than 8GB of free space i guess.... :-( optical drive backup would be the last option....
          - Is there no way to make windows recognise the other partitions?
          - How come it is being detected when booting from the other HDD alone?
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            Re: [solved]
            « Reply #7 on: June 27, 2009, 01:22:28 PM »
            Mods/Admin: The thread may be closed/removed as the issue was sorted out by installing service pack 2... thanks for the person who has been helping me...
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            Re: [solved]
            « Reply #8 on: June 27, 2009, 03:54:05 PM »
            I'm glad to hear that you found the solution.  Come back any time.

            <edit>  Just remember to change your backup media.  Don't back up to your primary disk anymore please.  </edit>
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