A removable hard drive enclosure went kaput. The drive inside, 200GB WD, I
kept. Installed into a removable enclosure that fits into the bay of the
PC. This connected to a Promise UltraTX controller card. Wiped the 2 FAT32
partitions, and made 2 NTFS partitions in XP using disk manager. I use
system commander for a boot manager. I forgot that it would automatically
hide new primary partitions found from any OS I boot from.

Upon the first reboot, found that windows explorer could not find the new
NTFS partitions. So, in disk management, I added them. I rebooted again.
Same results, even though they were added previously. At that point, I
remembered about the boot manager's hiding new primary partitions. So, went
in and made them visible in the options for each OS. Bingo. Both visible
and working in windows explorer. I disabled system restore for both unique
volume names of both partitions.

Meanwhile, I received a new external enclosure. So, I moved the hard drive
into that. All seemed normal. Went to system restore tab in device
manager. Only one partition was showing by volume name. And, it said was
not online.

Questions are, how do I remove the one volume name in system restore that
says its not online? How do I get the current online volume names to show
in system restore so I can disable them?

--
Dave

Try run,type:cmd In cmd typeiskPart In DiskPart,type:list disk
type:list volume Edit in DiskPart,type:HELP for all cmds

"Lil' Dave" wrote:

> A removable hard drive enclosure went kaput. The drive inside, 200GB WD, I
> kept. Installed into a removable enclosure that fits into the bay of the
> PC. This connected to a Promise UltraTX controller card. Wiped the 2 FAT32
> partitions, and made 2 NTFS partitions in XP using disk manager. I use
> system commander for a boot manager. I forgot that it would automatically
> hide new primary partitions found from any OS I boot from.
>
> Upon the first reboot, found that windows explorer could not find the new
> NTFS partitions. So, in disk management, I added them. I rebooted again.
> Same results, even though they were added previously. At that point, I
> remembered about the boot manager's hiding new primary partitions. So, went
> in and made them visible in the options for each OS. Bingo. Both visible
> and working in windows explorer. I disabled system restore for both unique
> volume names of both partitions.
>
> Meanwhile, I received a new external enclosure. So, I moved the hard drive
> into that. All seemed normal. Went to system restore tab in device
> manager. Only one partition was showing by volume name. And, it said was
> not online.
>
> Questions are, how do I remove the one volume name in system restore that
> says its not online? How do I get the current online volume names to show
> in system restore so I can disable them?
>
> --
> Dave
>
>
>