Vista

[lewmur]

My niece's note failed to boot and she had no restore points and the repair option from the CD didn't help. So rather than lose what she had on the drive, I shrunk the partition and installed to the blank space. Got the new install working but now Vista won't let me access the old partition.

[Guest LilBambi]

Should work if you used the exact same username and password and and computer name. If you didn't, might want to create a new user with that information?

[Guest LilBambi]

Can you go to the Manage, Computer Management, Disk Management and assign it a drive letter?Don't know if this will help but: Recovering the Vista Bootloader from the DVD

[lewmur]

Should work if you used the exact same username and password and and computer name. If you didn't, might want to create a new user with that information?

I have the user with the same name and password but I have no idea what the original computer name was. I went into the advanced properties for the drive and took ownership of the drive but I still can't access it!!

[tommyj12]

Lewmer you can try the mountvol command will list out the paritions availible. Out put will look something like this with the GUID's. I don't know if it will find it if the disk mgr can't.

Microsoft Windows [Version 6.1.7600]Copyright (c) 2009 Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.C:\Users\tom>mountvolCreates, deletes, or lists a volume mount point.MOUNTVOL [drive:]path VolumeNameMOUNTVOL [drive:]path /DMOUNTVOL [drive:]path /LMOUNTVOL [drive:]path /PMOUNTVOL /RMOUNTVOL /NMOUNTVOL /E	path		Specifies the existing NTFS directory where the mount				point will reside.	VolumeName  Specifies the volume name that is the target of the mount				point.	/D		  Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory.	/L		  Lists the mounted volume name for the specified directory.	/P		  Removes the volume mount point from the specified directory,				dismounts the volume, and makes the volume not mountable.				You can make the volume mountable again by creating a volume				mount point.	/R		  Removes volume mount point directories and registry settings				for volumes that are no longer in the system.	/N		  Disables automatic mounting of new volumes.	/E		  Re-enables automatic mounting of new volumes.Possible values for VolumeName along with current mount points are:	\\?\Volume{6a52e5c4-83f7-11de-a57a-806e6f6e6963}\		C:\	\\?\Volume{6a52e5c3-83f7-11de-a57a-806e6f6e6963}\		D:\	\\?\Volume{6a52e5c7-83f7-11de-a57a-806e6f6e6963}\		E:\C:\Users\tom>

So if I wanted to mount the D drive use mountvol D: \\?\Volume{6a52e5c3-83f7-11de-a57a-806e6f6e6963}\ You would obviously need to assign an unused drive letter.

[lewmur]

So if I wanted to mount the D drive use mountvol D: \\?\Volume{6a52e5c3-83f7-11de-a57a-806e6f6e6963}\ You would obviously need to assign an unused drive letter.

The partition is mounted and shows in Windows Explorer as D: The problem is that when I click on it it says that access is denied. Even though I've taken ownership via the advanced properties.

[lewmur]

My niece's note failed to boot and she had no restore points and the repair option from the CD didn't help. So rather than lose what she had on the drive, I shrunk the partition and installed to the blank space. Got the new install working but now Vista won't let me access the old partition.

Solved the problem by turning off UAC.

[tommyj12]

Ah totally missed that.