Lost partition

I originally had installed Windows XP Home, Windows Vista Ultimate, and
Linux Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" onto one part drive in different partitions
on an 80 GB hard drive. The first 11.05 NTFS partition holds the XP
Home OS, the second 25.39 GB NTFS partition holds the Vista Ultimate OS,
the the next extended partition has two logical partitions, one being a
6.6 GB exe3 partition that holds Ubuntu and a 431 MB swap partition.
The last partition 31.06 GB NTFS partition that had no OS that was
formatted from XP Home which I used to store data I planned to use on
all the operating systems.

The touble started when I found I could update Linux Ubuntu because
there wasn't enough space on it's partition so instead I just created a
new disk for Linux Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" and reformatted the 6.6 GB exe3
logical partition in the process of installing it. Now the Windows Vista
Ultimate operating system can't see the 31.06 GB NTFS partition at the
end of the drive from the "Computer" window. In the Disk Management
console it can be seen but when I try to reassign it a letter I get the
error message:
"The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console
view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If
the problem persists close the Disk Management console, then restart
Disk Management or restart the computer."

I tried all of those suggestions and nothing worked. I also noticed
that it reported the two logical partitions as primary partitions. From
Windows XP Home and Linux Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" they are still seen as
logical partitions. Does anyone know how to update the view in Windows
Vista Ultimate? Some of the applications installed on my Vista OS are
stored on this last partition and have stopped working so it would be a
great help if I could get this fixed.


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DarkMastero

On Fri, 30 May 2008 09:27:24 -0500, DarkMastero
<> wrote:

>
>I originally had installed Windows XP Home, Windows Vista Ultimate, and
>Linux Ubuntu "Feisty Fawn" onto one part drive in different partitions
>on an 80 GB hard drive. The first 11.05 NTFS partition holds the XP
>Home OS, the second 25.39 GB NTFS partition holds the Vista Ultimate OS,
>the the next extended partition has two logical partitions, one being a
>6.6 GB exe3 partition that holds Ubuntu and a 431 MB swap partition.
>The last partition 31.06 GB NTFS partition that had no OS that was
>formatted from XP Home which I used to store data I planned to use on
>all the operating systems.

Hopefully, it was formatted as FAT32, rather than NTFS, since that is
the ONLY way you will be able to use it between ALL OSes.

>
>The touble started when I found I could update Linux Ubuntu because
>there wasn't enough space on it's partition so instead I just created a
>new disk for Linux Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" and reformatted the 6.6 GB exe3
>logical partition in the process of installing it. Now the Windows Vista
>Ultimate operating system can't see the 31.06 GB NTFS partition at the
>end of the drive from the "Computer" window. In the Disk Management
>console it can be seen but when I try to reassign it a letter I get the
>error message:
>"The operation failed to complete because the Disk Management console
>view is not up-to-date. Refresh the view by using the refresh task. If
>the problem persists close the Disk Management console, then restart
>Disk Management or restart the computer."
>
>I tried all of those suggestions and nothing worked. I also noticed
>that it reported the two logical partitions as primary partitions. From
>Windows XP Home and Linux Ubuntu "Hardy Heron" they are still seen as
>logical partitions. Does anyone know how to update the view in Windows
>Vista Ultimate? Some of the applications installed on my Vista OS are
>stored on this last partition and have stopped working so it would be a
>great help if I could get this fixed.


This is what comes from not following Microsoft's partitioning/OS
installation advice.

ALWAYS,
1) Install the OLDEST Windows OS FIRST. (XP should be the VERY FIRST
OS on the VERY FIRST Partition you create.
2) Install the NEWEST Windows OS LAST, on its own partition.


Donald L McDaniel
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