Howdy folksI'm having a big problem here!I recently went throuh a format off my PC and had to reinstall everything.Now i was updating my system (WINXP SP2 and such via the windows update center) and now i lost a partition!!I have 2 hard disks in my PC where one is divided in 2 (my main disk) and then another one.So i used to have drives C,D (same disk in 2 partitions) and drive G (which is a secondary hard disk).Now i only have the drives C and G.I don't think the partition D is lost,cause i have only 40Gb of space on the C drive (which would be 80Gb if the partition was lost).So i think i need to re-activate that partition but i have no idea on how to do that...So if anyone has a solution,i would gladly hear it!!!Especially since all my FS stuff is on that drive!Guess i'm grounded now in the FS world :(Hope hearing from anyone soon!!Thnx allready!GreetzSteven

To tell whether or not the D partition is still there try this: Start/Settings/Control Panel/Administrative Tools/Computer Management and then click on Disk Management. That will display all the valid partitions on both drives. Was the D partition still there after the format? (It could be that you now just have a single 40GB C partition on the 80MB drive.)Doug

I did what you wrote in the post and i only have the 2 drives C and G in that Computer managment window.Yes,the D partition was still there after the format.Any other things i can check maybe?To give a better idea or...?Thnx allready for the effort!GreetzSteven

If the partition was usable after the format then something has corrupted the partition table. Since the system cannot now see the D partition you'll need some specialized software to try and restore it. This may help with the problem: http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk . But, I would caution you to fully backup the C partition before doing anything with this, or any, partition repair tool. Restoring partitions is a risky business and other partitions/data on the same physical drive could be lost in the process. Doug