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Writing 'lost partition' to MBR

Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham HopelessRegistered User regular
edited July 2010 in Help / Advice Forum
So I reformatted my computer, and windows cannot find the partition on one of my backup drives. I used "Partition Find and Mount" to locate the partition, and I have access to the files so i know it is still there, but I need to get rid of this unformatted "e" drive that is my backup drive and make windows understand that yes, there is an ntfs partition on that harddrive.

How do I do that? (my google fu failed me)

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    ronyaronya Arrrrrf. the ivory tower's basementRegistered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Windows 7, yes? Run diskmgmt.msc

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    Bendery It Like BeckhamBendery It Like Beckham Hopeless Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Oh right, telling you my setup would be helpful

    I'm using windows XP professional, sp3 and it's on a SATA drive

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    embrikembrik Registered User regular
    edited July 2010
    Bendery It Like Beckham wrote: »
    Oh right, telling you my setup would be helpful

    I'm using windows XP professional, sp3 and it's on a SATA drive

    See if diskmgmt.msc will still handle it. It's the same utility for XP, Vista and 7 (though the latter has more features).

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