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You're making everything more difficult then it is.
Good luck
I'd appreciate any advise on how to make this easier. How do I unhide the data partition of the 1T drive. This is the main problem I need a solution for.
I already made the boot partition active on this 1T drive. Everytme I've been rebooting I lose the drive letters like F. Do you think since I made the boot partition active that will fix my data partition being hidden? Thanks for all your help
My advice is to use Macrium Reflect and start over.
Clean the drive. Don't format it.
Open a CMD window as administrator and type:
diskpart
select disk 1
clean
convert mbr
exit
Drag and drop the partitions you want on the new drive from source to target (drive 1).
When you finish, use the commands I gave to make it boot able (replace G with the drive letters on the Windows partition).
Thanks for the advice. I'll open CMD window as administrator and use your instructions on that. . I'll delete all the partitions, unless the CLEASN command already did this. I'll then create the boot partition, recovery partition, data partition. I'm not sure what to do with the recovery partition, so I'll just leave it blank. I'll restore the boot partition I made today to the 1T boot partition and make sure it's active. I'll probably do this part with the 1T HD in my other computer. How does this sound?
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I plan on doing this tomorrow, wednesday. Unless someone has a solution for unhiding all the partitions on my 1T HD. That's really the only reason I have to use these extreme measures to fix this. Every time I reboot I lose the drive letters and network sharing on my 1T HD
On a MBR drive:
- System partition - NTFS - 100M
- C: partition - NTFS - 80G (if it will have no data, otherwise as big as you wish)
- Recovery - partition - NTFS -1G
- Data Partition - NTFS - As big as you wish
On my main computer - System partition - NTFS - 350M and the Recovery - partition - NTFS -522M. These sizes were from Win 8.1 with an upgrade to Win 10. Should the Recovery partition really be that large at 1G?
Since I don't know what to put in those partitions, I'll leave them with no files. When I restore the Macrium image I'll only restore the C drive not the system partition or Recovery partition.
I'm going to do all this on my main computer with the 1T as a USB drive and I'll make sure the boot partition is active after I do Macrium, which is installed in Win 10 on this computer.
Does this all sound right?
Thanks for all your help.
C partition 75G. I'lldo the rest like you said
Everything is a real disaster.
- Your "Diskmanagement“ screenshot is not as it should be.
- If you know how to use Macrium the right way, s.th. like that doesn’t happen.
- The reason why you have to reassign a driver letter after each reboot is probably just a wrong partition ID
- In domain computers a a simple startup-script mounts the server drives to the PC with the correct drive letter
- Why don’t you use the Microsoft Partition script for your disk layout
- Even on an old plain BIOS/Legathy computer you can use GPT-Disks
- and so on ...
check partition ID
diskpart
sel disk 1
sel par 3
det par
In det par output
type = 07 ?
only if not !
set id=07 override
assign letter=F
exit
reboot and check if the drive letter is there
Last edited by Pentagon; 2 Weeks Ago at 05:08.