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Unknown Partition - Vista>XP

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-17 15:54

So I'm switching back to WindowsXP Pro from Vista x32. My drive is sectioned off into two partitions of roughly equal size.

I backed up everything I wanted to keep onto the secondary partition, and booted to my WindowsXP Pro install CD. It shows my primary partition as NTFS, which is fine, but my secondary partition, which I have all my backed up software, is [UNKNOWN].

I've seen this before, unfortunately (second time I've switched back to Vista, different computers.) and realized once I got into WindowsXP, I couldn't access the secondary partition -- WindowsXP ignores it.

Any ideas how I can get this shit to be recognized in WindowsXP? I don't feel like re-downloading all that stuff, plus I have no DVD Burner, and I have about 30GB backed up onto that partition.

Thanks in advance.

Name: Anonymous 2008-07-17 16:18

Protip: don't store backups on encrypted partitions if you're going to be formatting the partition that has the key on it.

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