sata.unrecocognised partition

Can you access it by using Disk Management?

Right click on My Computer, and select Manage.... on the following screen,
click on Disk Management, it should appear on the right hand side of the
screen.

If still the same, I would try to copy ALL the information from partitions
one and two and then format the whole drive to see if that helps.
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Cari
MS-MVP Windows Technologies - Printing/Imaging/Hardware
www.coribright.com
"alan" <alanatby@ntlworld.com> wrote in message
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> hi
> got a sata drive in 3 partitions
> windows wont recognise the 3rd partition,but is
> constantly trying to access itslowing every thing down
> horribly.i cant access it to format partition.
> any ideas please
>