Secondary Partitions disappeared

I was trying to run a software which claimed to write xp setup files on usb and all of a sudden system boot .. and after that the secondary partitions of my hard drive like D:, E: and F: disappeared
can anybody help me reclaim those partitions, thanks

 

I know this might be a stupid question, but have you restarted the machine since?

If so, check if the partitions are listed in the Disk Management of your system.

Right Click on My Computer > Manage > Disk Management.
(That's how it shows it in Win7, not sure about XP)

If it's listed there, just reassign them their Drive Letter Path.

Right Click on the Partition and click "Change Drive Letter and Paths"

 

its no use because i am using windows xp and cant see the drives in my computer at all so there is no way to rightclick or leftclick them

 

No no... I meant Right Click on your "My Computer", not on the drives.

 

And no, the drives are not coming in the system information utilities of xp :\

 

Hello,
Try MiniTools Partition Wizard.

Partition Recovery

Edit: Sorry, crossposted with the replies.

 

Asitha
Ok .. i tried that and it shows the over all capacity of 40 GB but only C drive is listed in the partitions list

 

Try that as well to go to Disk Management.

 

Then try the tools tgell suggested. Might be able to recover them through that

 

tgell
ok, let me try that

 

Thank you for your guidance =)

 

So, everything went okay for you? Glad you got it sorted out.

 

yeah, but in the recovery process .. my boot drive got deleted and another drive was given the name C:, i joined both the drives as one and installed xp again . thanks