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Partitioned external hard drive partitions not visible!

Discussion in 'Networking (Hardware & Software)' started by rpep816, 2007/04/17.

  1. 2007/04/17
    rpep816

    rpep816 Inactive Thread Starter

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    I have a Western Digital external hard dive on my network for the purpose of backing up my two machines. I partitioned this drive using Acronis Disk director Suite 10, then installed Network Magic. The partitions (known as F and G, F for my laptop backups, G for my desktop) are not visible to my backup program (TurboBackup), nor Network Magic. Does anyone have a solution for this? I am running MS XP-Home as my OS.:(
     
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    TonyT

    TonyT SuperGeek Staff

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    Network Drive- NAS (Network Attached Storage)? USB Drive? IDE inside USB Drive Enclosure? Is the drive recognized by Windows My Computer AND Disk Management? Did you map the drives? Network shared drives are usually available via the Network Icon in file dialog windows.

    I'm not entirely sure why you needed the 3rd party utils to partition and setup the network shares. Windows already has utils for that built in.
     
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    rpep816

    rpep816 Inactive Thread Starter

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    Unrecgonized Partition

    Tony,

    Sorry about the lack of information in my original post. The drive is an IDE inside the USB enclosure. One partition on the drive is being seen, specifically the "G ", but the "F" partition remains invisible to My computer and Disk Management. I did not map the drives and I am unfamiliar with the process, could you elaborate? As I just said, the drive is seen by both computers, the problem lies in the partition (F) being invisible.

    Ron

     
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    TonyT

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    I understand now.
    My idea is that the software you used to partition the disk did not do a good job. I would backup any data on it to your internal drive, then use windows disk management to delete the partitions on it and convert to free space. Then use disk management to make one large extended partition w/ 2 logical drives.
     
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