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mount a partition in vista? [solved with help of XP]

Started by deffer Mar 3, 2007 at 9:38 AM 3 replies 1.3k views

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Mar 3, 2007 at 9:38 AM

I just got from the store with a brand new copy of Home Premium. The thing is, before I installed vista, I was using xp, and when I dual-installed linux, one of my partitios changed its drive letter somehow, so I just unmounted that partition (in XP) and mounted it again under the right drive letter (using some external program (which is not working on vista)). Now, after the reinstalation, it remains hidded, which is not very surprising. I have most of my valuable data on it, so I'd rather make it visible somehow ;\ But I don't know how. I tried diskpart - standard vista tool for such stuff - but I didn't see any options that would get it done. Any ideas?[crying] [Edited by - deffer on March 3, 2007 3:31:18 PM]

mutex

Mar 3, 2007 at 1:16 PM

Press Win+R (shortcut to the Run dialog, which is by default not on the Vista start menu), type "compmgmt.msc" without quotes and press enter. Look for Disk Management on the left; it'll let you rename drive letters and even mount partitions inside folders of an existing partition.

BTW this is the same method in XP; you don't need an app to do this.

deffer

Mar 3, 2007 at 1:48 PM

I've already been there.
It sees my partition, but doesn't want to do anything with it, except deleting it (all other actions are grayed out).[sad]

Nypyren

Mar 3, 2007 at 3:06 PM

See if the command line "mountvol" will let you do anything.

deffer

Mar 3, 2007 at 3:29 PM

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Original post by Nypyren
See if the command line "mountvol" will let you do anything.

It let's you do anything if you have the partition already assigned to some volume (which I don't).

Anyway, I eventually booted once again to my old XP and launched some external program - which allowed me to unhide the partition. After logging back to Vista, the partition was detected automatically and assigned to a new volume.

Shame that I couldn't do this with some standard system tools... or could I?

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