messsy Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 OK. like a plonker ive used a tool called RatRescueCenter to check my start ups and a enable a few things on my laptop, in the advanced restrictions you can restrict a whole lot of things but at the bottom is an option to hide a drive, so ive hidden one of my partitions and the cdrom drive (like a twat) but i can not get them to show. i have opened computer management, under storage my other drives are there but not the ones ive hidden im hoping someone can help me with this as i need to format and cant without a cdrom :) also the partition i hidden has ALL my files on, thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sparda Posted March 8, 2009 Share Posted March 8, 2009 Put the Windows install disk in the drive, restart. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
H@L0_F00 Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Try to unhide them with the same tool you used to hide them with in the first place? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
soundguymike Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 This sounds like it will fix the problem http://www.theeldergeek.com/show_hidden_de...ice_manager.htm from website [start] [Run] [Regedit] Registry Key: HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Session Manager\Environment Data Type: REG_SZ [string Value] // Value Name: DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES Modify/Create the Value Name [DEVMGR_SHOW_NONPRESENT_DEVICES] according to the Value Data listed below. Value Data: [1 = Show Devices / 0 = Hide Devices] Exit Registry and Reboot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
VaKo Posted March 9, 2009 Share Posted March 9, 2009 Install TweakUI, it has a little menu that allows you to hide or unhide your drives. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
messsy Posted March 10, 2009 Author Share Posted March 10, 2009 thanks guys got it sorted now, i downloaded a program called GetDataBack, it worked well but took some time. i now have all my files back :) i will be noting the advice here and ill take a look at tweakUI for hiding drives thanks :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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