There are no drives listed during windows 7 system recovery

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Published on 2010-06-08T04:15:06Z Indexed on 2010/06/08 4:23 UTC
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I'm trying to use the Windows 7 system recovery disk to repair a boot sector, however I'm finding that when I boot the recovery disk, it doesn't list / mount any of my disk partitions, and so I can't perform the recovery.

The partitions are all NTFS formatted, and the drivers used to read the disks all seem to be fairly straightforward Microsoft drivers, so I shouldn't need to load any extra drivers to see my partitions (its a Dell Latitude D530)

Diskpart correctly lists the partitions (complete with labels) - it just that when I attempt to switch to that partition it gives me the "This partition does not contain a recognised file system" message.

Has anyone got any idea how I can work out why my partitions are not visible?

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