Partition disappears when changing OS via PLOP

[PeKa]

PC Intel Core2 64-bits with 3 hard drives:
Drive 0: Primary partition E:
Drive 1: - Primary partition (system boot-up)
            - Primary partition C: (with OS Win7 Home Premium)
            - Primary partition X: (with OS WinXP Home SP3)
            - Logic station D:
Drive 2: Primary partition F:

I have installed PLoP Bootmanager 5.0.8 and works fine to switch from one OS to the other. But when I switch from Win7 to WinXP and back to Win7 again, partition E: has disappeared and the drive is "not allocated" anymore and all data on it has been lost. 

Please help.

[Elmar]

hi,
please post the boot manager profile settings

regards
elmar

[PeKa]

Profile settings:

WINDOWS 7:
HDA               Don't touch
            *80H  Don't touch
                     Don't touch
                     Don't touch

WINDOWS XP:
HDA               Don't touch
                     Don't touch
            *80H  Don't touch
                     Don't touch

HDB, HDC and HDD remain unchanged.

Thanks for your help,
Peter

[Elmar]

i am a bit confused about the drive settings of your first post

Drive 0: Primary partition E:
Drive 1: - Primary partition (system boot-up)
            - Primary partition C: (with OS Win7 Home Premium)
            - Primary partition X: (with OS WinXP Home SP3)
            - Logic station D:
Drive 2: Primary partition F:

but the profile settings are for hda. that would mean that drive 1 is in real drive 0, or?

[PeKa]

Probably, I don't know 

The Partitions window of PLoP Bootmanager shows:
HDA1, HDA2, HDA3, HDA4
HDB1
HDC1

Regards, Peter

[Elmar]

i don't know how or why this is happening. you can set the partition hdb1 and hdc1 in the profile of xp.

[PeKa]

Oké Elmar, thanks for your help.
It has probably nothing to do with PLoP Bootmanager.

What wonders me too is the different allocations of the drives in Windows Drive Management.

For Win7 this is:
Drive 0: Primary partition E:
Drive 1: - Primary partition (system boot-up)
            - Primary partition C: (with OS Win7 Home Premium)
            - Primary partition X: (with OS WinXP Home SP3)
            - Logic station D:
Drive 2: Primary partition F:
Drive 3: External Hard Disk (USB) O:

For WinXP this is:
Drive 0: =same as above=
Drive 1: =same as above=
Drive 2: External Hard Disk (USB) O:
Drive 3: (exchangable)

So here Primary partition F: is missing 

Anyhow, the last times I switched from Win7 to WinXP and back again 'Primary partition E:' was still there. I hope it will stay that way.

Regards, Peter