Lost partition on a hard drive.

[allenjc]

The mother board of an old PC died. The partitioned hard drive was still okay. The hard drive had a "C: Windows" and a "D: Data" partition. I hooked it into a new PC and only the D: part shows up. I looked in Diskmgmt. It is also not there. I even hooked it direct into the SATA connection of the main drive and the other partition still does not show.

 

[CountMike]

If you put an old drive in new system, it will not have C: letter any more, it's always reserved for partition OS is running from. Did you try assigning another letter to it ?

 

[allenjc]

If you put an old drive in new system, it will not have C: letter any more, it's always reserved for partition OS is running from. Did you try assigning another letter to it ?

 

[allenjc]

Thanks for the idea, but the drive does not show up at all anywhere including "diskmgmt". I assigned the one part of the partition that I can see another letter to see if that would cause the PC to see the other, but nothing happened. I ran "AOMEI Partition Assistant" "Partition Recovery" and it also did not find anything. I am beginning to think I am going crazy. I even opened up the broken PC again to see if there is another drive in there somewhere. There is not.

 

[CountMike]

Can you cross reference drive model with it's capacity ? Does that partition (Formerly D have Windows folder ?

 

[allenjc]

Can you cross reference drive model with it's capacity ? Does that partition (Formerly D have Windows folder ?

 

[allenjc]

The former "D" drive does not have a windows folder. That was on the former "C". The drive is a "Seagate Barracuda 3000GB SATA". Explorer says 2.72 GB capacity with 1.91 full for the "I" drive (former D). I have looked in all the folders to see if the "old C drive" is hidden somewhere, but to no avail. The old "C" partition was much smaller than the "D". I do not remember how big it was, but somewhere between 100 and 500 GB. Thanks for the continued ideas!

 

[USAFRet]

Screencap of your current Disk Management window, please.

 

[allenjc]

Screencap of your current Disk Management window, please.

 

[allenjc]

Screencap of your current Disk Management window, please.

 

[allenjc]

I have been trying to add a screenshot since I started this thread, but I have failed with at least 5 methods. What am I missing?

 

[allenjc]

Screencap of your current Disk Management window, please.

 

[CountMike]

Just place on some of these sharing sites and link here.
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/839-best-photography-sites.html#s14

 

[USAFRet]

I have been trying to add a screenshot since I started this thread, but I have failed with at least 5 methods. What am I missing?

There is no direct upload of pics here.

You need to upload it to a hosting service, and then provide the link here.
imgur.com is a popular one to use.

 

[allenjc]

Just place on some of these sharing sites and link here.
https://www.tomsguide.com/us/pictures-story/839-best-photography-sites.html#s14

Try this... https://www.dropbox.com/s/ln04yzmtbfyi53i/2018-08-10.png?dl=0

 

[allenjc]

https://www.dropbox.com/s/ln04yzmtbfyi53i/2018-08-10.png?dl=0

Try this.

 

[USAFRet]

On that Disk 1, I'm not seeing any lost space or partitions.

917.67GB in the D partition
13.85GB in the E partition

= 931GB. Exactly as it should be for a 1TB drive.
Methinks your C partition in that old system was somewhere else.

 

[allenjc]

On that Disk 1, I'm not seeing any lost space or partitions.

917.67GB in the D partition
13.85GB in the E partition

= 931GB. Exactly as it should be for a 1TB drive.
Methinks your C partition in that old system was somewhere else.

The disk in question is "Data (I" on Disk (Datenträger) 3. I dropped a new screenshot.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cr4wm17vvt4bc44/AAB4AWAT7WhnaZWCxw9_A64Za?dl=0

 

[USAFRet]

On that Disk 1, I'm not seeing any lost space or partitions.

917.67GB in the D partition
13.85GB in the E partition

= 931GB. Exactly as it should be for a 1TB drive.
Methinks your C partition in that old system was somewhere else.

The disk in question is "Data (I" on Disk (Datenträger) 3. I dropped a new screenshot.

https://www.dropbox.com/sh/cr4wm17vvt4bc44/AAB4AWAT7WhnaZWCxw9_A64Za?dl=0

3TB HDD, with 1 partition, currently 70% full. And the partition labeled "Data".
Still not seeing any remnants of an original C partition.