Urgent - Can't acess Partitions

[bobby789]

O/S - windows 7 ultimate

Hard disk - 500gb Seagate

Hard disk partitioning

c- 50gb

d-156gb

e -156gb

free space -100gb

I was able to access all of my partitions an hour ago

then i thought of using hirens boot cd to create an extra partiton

i used some tool[ may be partition magic or some thing] on hirens boot cd

when i started that tool from boot cd it scanned my hard disk and gave me 3 partition table errors, it gave me option to fix them so i fixed them

then after i postponed my task of creating partitions and restarted windows

after restarting i could not see my partitions D and E

but i can see them in disk management section i can view files and access files when i booted from a live linux cd

help me in fixing this problem

i am attaching two screen-shots of my computer and disk management

thanks in advance

[AlanHo]

If you can see the files using a Linux CD - if you don't already have one - take an immediate back up of all your valuable data whilst you can still access it. Preferrably onto an external hard drive.

Then - in Disc management - right click on each of the partitions you cannot access and click on "mark partition as Active".

If this gives you access - repeat and allocate your chosed drive letter.

I have never tried this and hope that it works - but to be safe - make that back up first.

[bobby789]

If you can see the files using a Linux CD - if you don't already have one - take an immediate back up of all your valuable data whilst you can still access it. Preferrably onto an external hard drive.

Then - in Disc management - right click on each of the partitions you cannot access and click on "mark partition as Active".

If this gives you access - repeat and allocate your chosed drive letter.

I have never tried this and hope that it works - but to be safe - make that back up first.

thanks AlanHo for your suggestion

regarding marking disk as active am afraid of doing that

windows documentation pointed that marking a partition as active which does not have any os which make system non- boot-able and partitions should be marked active only if they contain os

correct me if i am wrong

[AlanHo]

thanks AlanHo for your suggestion

regarding marking disk as active am afraid of doing that

windows documentation pointed that marking a partition as active which does not have any os which make system non- boot-able and partitions should be marked active only if they contain os

correct me if i am wrong

I fear you may be right. Sorry for what might turn out to be poor advice.

If you right click on the partitions - do you get an option to "Create Simple Volume".

If so a wizard will open asking you to assign a chosen drive letter. I haven't a clue that doing this will lose any data in that parttion though.