Comments on: "EISA Configuration" partition won’t go away http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/52 Eric Jiang Wed, 15 May 2013 17:00:53 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Keith Pitts http://notes.ericjiang.com/posts/52#comment-472 Keith Pitts Tue, 12 May 2009 10:27:58 +0000 http://blog.aztekera.com/?p=52#comment-472 Thanks for the article, covers most eventualities, just one more to add to the list if I may. I was suffering from a failed dual boot (Windows Vista / Windows 7). After installing Windows 7 RC the dual boot disappeared, when viewing the other boot drive it was set as ‘EISA Configuration’. Not really a problem as I keep data on seperate drives – but you never know ! All I wanted to do was view the files on the ‘missing’ drive for my own piece of mind. After much googling and finding solutions that require the purchase of expensive pieces of recovery software, I took my life (and my hardrive) in my hands, ran diskpart in an elevated command prompt, navigated to the disk\partition in question, viewed the details – it was set as a type 12, used the command ‘SET ID=07 OVERRIDE’ and magically the ‘EISA Configuration’ drive was available as a normal, viewable drive, allowing me to view the files (didn’t find anything!).

Anyway hope this is of use to somebody in a similar position, I would guess that in a situation ALA Acer you would get access to the drive during the current windows session as it will be reset to ‘EISA Configuration’ on re-boot.

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