Solved Missing hdd partition help

johnr July 1, 2012 at 00:47:57

Right-click 'My Computer' and select 'Manage'. Under 'storage' click 'disk management'. Look for your missing partition, right-click it and choose whichever option you want - give it a drive letter, format, make active etc. Your partition/drive will then appear as normal. "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..." Pink Floyd

but its appearing as a LOGICAL drive not primary ? what does that mean r there any differences? AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition | 4 gb ddr3 | 1 TB segate | Nvidia 9500GT(O.C)

johnr July 1, 2012 at 02:25:52

I'm not a partition expert but I seem to recall that Vista and Win 7 do this - the first two partitions will be primary and then the 3rd onwards are logical partitions. In previous versions you had to choose because you can only have 4 primary partitions and to get more partitions you have to create 3 primary and then one extended inside which you can have up to 64 (I think) logical partitions, Win7 may be doing it automatically for you but hence only having 2 primary. As far as I'm aware it doesn't make any real difference in actual useage, but it should have assigned the 3rd partition a letter - if it hasn't then double-clicking the drive should give you the wizard to actually format and assign one. "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..." Pink Floyd

toxict51 July 1, 2012 at 02:41:20

after u assign a letter for it it should appear in my computer, then AFAIK the primary partition is the one u installed ur OS to, the others are just logical computers are a second home NVIDIA GeForce GS_Toxict51

ok i entered disk management n im now geting the third partition as a logical one. My only concern is whether its different from primary ones?whether copying n loadinf files in this drive will be slower....? AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition | 4 gb ddr3 | 1 TB segate | Nvidia 9500GT(O.C)

toxict51 July 1, 2012 at 02:59:47

i dont think itll be slower they are all part of the same HDD, test it and check it out but i doubt itll be slower, it could be a bit slower, give it a shot computers are a second home NVIDIA GeForce GS_Toxict51

johnr July 1, 2012 at 03:06:47

✔ Best Answer

No the only difference as far as the user is concerned is that you cannot make a logical drive bootable. There won't be any difference in access times etc. Have you now got a drive letter assigned to it? "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..." Pink Floyd

yeah its F !! AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition | 4 gb ddr3 | 1 TB segate | Nvidia 9500GT(O.C)

johnr July 1, 2012 at 03:15:03

Good, that makes sense & in that case you're up & running as you should be. Don't worry about the primary/logical part, I doubt whether that can be altered using Windows and it won't affect the running of the system at all. "I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the most of us..." Pink Floyd

Okay thanx for all ur help :) AMD Phenom II 955 Black Edition | 4 gb ddr3 | 1 TB segate | Nvidia 9500GT(O.C)

OtheHill July 1, 2012 at 09:03:18

When viewing Windows Disk Management you should see a 100MB partition with no assigned drive letter. The purpose of this partition is explained in the link below. If you wish to eliminate that partition you must use a third party partitioning tool like the one from the hard drive manufacturer. At any rate, the protocols for disk partitioning only allow 3 primary partitions and 1 extended partition which can have as many logical drives as available drive letters. A, B, C are reserved drive letters which can't be re-assigned to logical drives. http://social.technet.microsoft.com...