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Unknown Partition
Name: Andy Date: April 22, 2002 at 19:56:54 Pacific
Comment:
I got the problem of unknown partition on window XP.It was weired after I installed the Partiton Magic on my PC. the driver E be marked as "unknown partition". Is anyone has any idea to fix this problem ?
Name: tropic Date: April 23, 2002 at 00:44:38 Pacific
Reply:
How big is it?
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Response Number 2
Name: D. Trudeau Date: April 23, 2002 at 13:29:41 Pacific
Reply:
It's probly your system restore partition, on like hp, and compaq they put a partition with all yoour recovery stuff, they used to send you a disk, but Microsloth won't let them do that with xp, afraid ther'll be too many bootleg copies of their impregnabl operating system floating around ....lol :)
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