Can windows 7 only show 6 partitons on my computer?

joemardo1

Hi There,

I got a new desktop running windows 7 home prenimum and with 2 hard drivers 250 and 1000 gb each. I went into disk management and shrunk the volumes creating 7 partitions in total and formated each in the NTFS. But in my computer it only shows 6 of them. Is there a way to show all seven of them?

thanks
Joe

poppy10_2

Which is the missing partition? Windows 7 often creates a small 100MB hidden partition to enable bitlocker encryption, you're not supposed to be able to see it.

enigma52

I can see all my 9 partitions on win 7 64 bit system

RobertoMoir

joemardo1 wrote: »

Hi There,

I got a new desktop running windows 7 home prenimum and with 2 hard drivers 250 and 1000 gb each. I went into disk management and shrunk the volumes creating 7 partitions in total and formated each in the NTFS. But in my computer it only shows 6 of them. Is there a way to show all seven of them?

thanks
Joe

This is a little confusing. You must have been able to "see" each partition in order to format each partition. If it's not visible to Windows then it can't be formatted by Windows.

It's always hard to guess things like this without being able to see for yourself, but my first thing would be to check that you haven't simply forgotten to give the "lost" partition a drive letter in the drive management tool.