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Windows recognises only the system reserved partition

January 29th, 2015, 8:48

As it was mentioned, Windows only show the 99 mb system reserved partition. I'm using it with a SATA-USB cable, as it is not mine, I just want to make it able to use. It is a 320 gb Western Digital SATA HDD.
Any help would be appreciated.

Re: Windows recognises only the system reserved partition

January 29th, 2015, 9:00

what is problem with drive
any strange noises

Re: Windows recognises only the system reserved partition

January 30th, 2015, 4:15

If the disk is not making any strange sounds and there is no useful data in it, just try to create a new partition using windows disk managment.
If there is usefull data you are trying to recover, use some logical recovery software on it, like R-Studio.

Re: Windows recognises only the system reserved partition

January 30th, 2015, 14:53

Drive may also have some partition encryption scheme that won't allow for the "big" partition to mount.
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