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January 24, 2008 at 08:32 AM
doramius

Need data from multi-partition SATA: no drive letter

by doramius . Updated 18 years, 5 months ago

I need to obtain data from one of the 2 partitions off a SATA drive. It’s a Seagate Barracuda from a Dell Optiplex. For whatever reason the recovery disc is not working and we keep getting a corrupt file which won’t let it boot to XP.
There are 2 partitions. The second partition (also the larger partition) has the data that needs to be retreived and is listed as drive E:

I have the ability to connect it internally or externally with enclosure. Results are the same: Drive is recognized. No drive letters available. Will not give an option to change drive letters (when using Disk Management). First partition just gives ‘Help’ option. Second partition gives ‘Help’ and ‘Delete Partition’ option.

I cannot lose the data.

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