Disk partition not mounting

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On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and D)
As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine
However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it i
Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux use
and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I don'
know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohe
 
It would need to be formatted before it is usable and viewable as "D".
Open Disk Management and format it. You may find Disk Management by
r-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage, or Start Run, diskmgmt.msc
 
Right Click on My Computer Icon
Select Manage
Select Disk Management
Assign Drive Letter.
 
Bob said:
It would need to be formatted before it is usable and viewable as "D".
Open Disk Management and format it. You may find Disk Management by
r-clicking My Computer and selecting Manage, or Start Run,
diskmgmt.msc

dotancohen wrote:-
On my neighbor's computer the hard disk has two partitions. (C and
D).
As usual, the operating system is on C, and the computer starts fine.
However, D is not mounted. That means, that we don't see it in
Explorer. How does one mount a partition in windows? I am a linux
user
and I'm familiar with standard commands, such as mount, however I
don't
know their windows equivelents.

Thank in advance.

Dotan Cohen
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Thanks, Bob. The D partition was in fact formated, and he had been
using it until now daily. Also, I can mount the disk on my debian box
and see the files- it's formated FAT something or other. For whatever
reason, the windows box doesn't mount that partition on startup, and I
have no idea how to mount a disk manually.

Does windows have an equevilient to the mount command? or better yet,
an fstab file equivelent?

Thanks in advance.
 
dotancohen said:
Thanks, Bob. The D partition was in fact formated, and he had been
using it until now daily. Also, I can mount the disk on my debian box
and see the files- it's formated FAT something or other. For whatever
reason, the windows box doesn't mount that partition on startup, and I
have no idea how to mount a disk manually.

Does windows have an equevilient to the mount command? or better yet,
an fstab file equivelent?

Thanks in advance.
Click to expand...

What do you see in Disk Management? That's where you need to set/change
drive letters.
 
Thanks, all. I booted the machine in Slax and saw that the disk was no
labeled as NTFS (it was labeld as Partition Magic something-or-other)
It was also labeled as bootable. I just changed the label to NTFS an
removed the boot flag. Hurray!

Note that the computers owner had tried to fix the problem wit
Partition Magic after the problem had first surfaced. So I suspect
although the disk was labeled with Partition Magic junk, that PM wa
not entirely to blame.

Once again, thanks to all for the ideas and suggested solutions.

Dotan Cohe
 
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