I ran Crystaldiskinfo and here's the screenshot. The reallocated sectors show 1E. Not sure what that means, since I don't convert Hex to Dec. I will for sure keep a good eye on this HD and replace it...

Why is GPT better than MBR for this data disk?

I almost never have used the Recovery Environment unless it was used without me knowing. I remember at times I needed to put in my Win 10 CD. I...

No UEFI on my 15 year old Q9450 computer. I do have it on my ProStudio main computer.

Your Disk1.txt worked perfectly. I ran Crystaldiskinfo and got a caution from it. I then did a diskpart clean...

No 3rd party tool it was all fine until I used Macrium to restore the image from my current HD. THen the hidden problem started and nothing we’ve done has solved it from losing the letter after...

here it is. Since I was using the HD I kept adding the drive letter. Right now I haven't added it yet

I just did that, assigned it to E and rebooted. It again lost the drive letter. I did diskpart and it now shows all the partitions hidden on 1T

I did that and when i went to diskmanagment I saw the unallocated data space and went ahead and deleted the EX PART partition which was created by accitnet. I made the data partition a Simple volume....

I copied the file to C after using this CMD
icacls c:\ /setintegritylevel M

I plan on doing this below.

run cmd command
C:\Windows\System32>DiskPart /s C:\disk1.txt

I assume it will...

I rebooted and lost both drive letters F and K. I the next step is to copy disk1.txt to C drive. It won't let me do it. It says - a required privledge is not held by client

I usually use CMD admin, but I thought Powershell was more advanced, so I thought maybe that's what you used.
I used your commands in CMD admin and now I have my 1T data partition having 2 drive...

I'm using Powershell, not sure if that's different terminology than CMD. BUt I tried calling it part 4 and it gave info for EX Part.

DISKPART> sel par 4

Partition 4 is now the selected...

yes. I assume the first partition is called partition 0. In powershell it described partition 3 perfectly as my large data partition. What's next?

Thanks Pentagon. I don't understand what you mean by - only if not !
I opened Powershell admin and here's what it said

Windows PowerShell
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation. All rights...

C partition 75G. I'lldo the rest like you said

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...

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...

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...

As of now I erased the macrium image off of the !T HD.

Since I'm having this trouble with all the partitions being hidden on Disk 1, I think I'll just totally wipe Disk 1 using another computer...

All my HD's are MBR, never GPT. I verified this with DISKPART. I thought with Macrium you had to make a disk image first, which would make a really big file for a 400 gig HD and then restore that...

Disk 1 is not a CLONE of Disk 0. Macrium doesn't seem to clone, so I just downloaded Ease Us Disk Copy. I thought maybe should first slow format Disk 1, and just clone Disk 0 to Disk 1. I'm glad...

i've never used GPT only MBR, because I'm not sure what advantages GPT has. I see no where in Disk Management or MiniTool Partition wizard that shows GPT or MBR. I recently formatted the HDD with a...

Here's My PC. It all looks fine now, but when I reboot I lose F. I have to go to Disk Management and assign the drive letters again

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Here's my Command prompt admin window
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I tried command prompt admion again and did this
sel disk #
ATTRIBUTES DISK CLEAR READONLY

it was successful, but when I LIST VOLUME I stil see the hidden on all the partitions. Will it be fixed...

Disk 0 is the HD I was trying to retire, but is the only one that will boot. Disk 1 is the HD that's hidden

After restoring a boot image using Macrium the HD has all it's partritions hidden. I've tried Command prompt admin - DISKPART, DISKPART> ATTRIBUTES VOLUME CLEAR HIDDEN
got error message
DiskPart...