Cannot View NTFS Logical Drive After Using Fdisk

After using Fdisk to delete a logical drive when you start Windows NT in a dual-boot environment with Windows 95, or Windows 98, you find that logical drives that use NTFS file system have disappeared.

This issue can occur due to deletion of NTFS logical drive. In an extended partition Fdisk fails to recognize NTFS logical drives and it deletes the NTFS logical drive. The main reason for NTFS logical drive deletion is occurrence of Fdisk while using FAT file system.

Solution

To resolve this issue you will need to use Disk Administrator, so that changes to logical drive can be made. You will make changes to have logical drive that uses both FAT and NTFS file systems. After making these changes when you will run Fdisk once again, the logical drive will be successfully removed using FAT file system.

In Windows 95 if NTFS is configured as primary partition, Fdisk considers the NTFS partition as a non-DOS partition and fails to recognize it. You can make Fdisk recognize NTFS partition that is set as primary partition. To do so, run Fdisk in Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2 (OSR2) and in Windows 98.

If in case, you face data loss situation, you can always rely on Kernel for Fat and NTFS to recover data. Kernel for Fat and NTFS recovery software will effortlessly recover data from lost, formatted, damaged, corrupt or deleted FAT and NTFS partitions.

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