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The forum thread discusses issues accessing a data partition after upgrading to Windows 7, with users facing problems like missing drive letters and inaccessible files. The original poster’s problem seems related to security settings or drive recognition, while subsequent users share similar experiences with drive visibility and permissions. The overall sentiment indicates that assigning drive letters and managing security permissions might resolve these access issues.
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Mastaan

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I had 2 partitions on the same hard drive, and I did a clean install of Windows 7 Professional, but for some reason I can't access my D drive, I belive it has something to do with the Security Settings. I had important file in it. Is there a way I can access my files? I tried running diskmgmt.msc, but nothing shows up.

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I had something similar.
One of my drives didn't turn up after restart.
In discmanagement I noticed this drive didn't have a character (e.g. D or E or F) assigned to it.
After I assigned a character to it, it showed up in my computer.
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I had something similar.
One of my drives didn't turn up after restart.
In discmanagement I noticed this drive didn't have a character (e.g. D or E or F) assigned to it.
After I assigned a character to it, it showed up in my computer.
 

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I'm having a similar issue myself. I can see the partition in diskmgmt, but it won't let me do anything with it. :( When I right click on the partition - Which is half of my hard disk! - it only brings up the "help" option, and the drive mount buttons are all gone from the bar along the top. And it doesn't even appear when I try to run it in command line.
 

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