Disk partition not mounting

On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and D). As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine. However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it in Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux user and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I don't know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohen

It would need to be formatted before it is usable and viewable as "D".
Open Disk Management and format it. You may find Disk Management by
r-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage, or Start Run, diskmgmt.msc

dotancohen wrote:
On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and D).
As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine.
However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it in
Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux user
and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I don't
know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohen

Right Click on My Computer Icon
Select Manage
Select Disk Management
Assign Drive Letter.

On 19/10/2006 dotancohen wrote:

On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and D).
As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine.
However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it in
Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux user
and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I don't
know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohen





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Originally Posted by Bob I

It would need to be formatted before it is usable and viewable as "D".
Open Disk Management and format it. You may find Disk Management by
r-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage, or Start Run, diskmgmt.msc

dotancohen wrote:
On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and D).
As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine.
However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it in
Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux user
and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I don't
know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohen

Thanks, Bob. The D partition was in fact formated, and he had been using it until now daily. Also, I can mount the disk on my debian box and see the files- it's formated FAT something or other. For whatever reason, the windows box doesn't mount that partition on startup, and I have no idea how to mount a disk manually.

Does windows have an equevilient to the mount command? or better yet, an fstab file equivelent?

Thanks in advance.

dotancohen wrote:

Bob I Wrote:

It would need to be formatted before it is usable and viewable as "D".
Open Disk Management and format it. You may find Disk Management by
r-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage, or Start Run,
diskmgmt.msc

dotancohen wrote:-
On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and
D).
As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine.
However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it in
Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux
user
and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I
don't
know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohen
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Thanks, Bob. The D partition was in fact formated, and he had been
using it until now daily. Also, I can mount the disk on my debian box
and see the files- it's formated FAT something or other. For whatever
reason, the windows box doesn't mount that partition on startup, and I
have no idea how to mount a disk manually.

Does windows have an equevilient to the mount command? or better yet,
an fstab file equivelent?

Thanks in advance.



What do you see in Disk Management? That's where you need to set/change
drive letters.

Originally Posted by Bob I

What do you see in Disk Management? That's where you need to set/change
drive letters.

The options for changing the drive letters are greyed out:
http://dotancohen.com/alex_winbox_nodrive.png

Dotan Cohen

Originally Posted by dotancohen

The options for changing the drive letters are greyed out:
http://dotancohen.com/alex_winbox_nodrive.png

Dotan Cohen

The mouse should have been over the Volume marked Audio. You can see that it says Status: Heathy (unknown partition). It used to mount when Windows started. I'm not sure which drive letter it was.

I assume that the partition table is toast, but I know nothing of NTFS filesystems. I thought it was FAT* before I saw this.

Dotan Cohen

Can you select it and import it?

dotancohen wrote:
Bob I Wrote:

What do you see in Disk Management? That's where you need to set/change

drive letters.


The options for changing the drive letters are greyed out:
http://dotancohen.com/alex_winbox_nodrive.png

Dotan Cohen

Try running TestDisk from http://www.cgsecurity.org/.

On Thu, 19 Oct 2006 15:18:54 +0100, dotancohen
wrote:


On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and D).
As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine.
However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it in
Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux user
and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I don't
know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohen

Thanks, all. I booted the machine in Slax and saw that the disk was not labeled as NTFS (it was labeld as Partition Magic something-or-other). It was also labeled as bootable. I just changed the label to NTFS and removed the boot flag. Hurray!

Note that the computers owner had tried to fix the problem with Partition Magic after the problem had first surfaced. So I suspect, although the disk was labeled with Partition Magic junk, that PM was not entirely to blame.

Once again, thanks to all for the ideas and suggested solutions.

Dotan Cohen