I am having an issue with a logical drive on my PC. I'll explain my setup. I have two physical hard drives in my PC. The primary has one partition, and is my C: drive. The other drive has one primary partition (my E: drive), and one extended partition. The extended partition has two logical partitions. The logical partitions are mounted to directories under the root of C: (for example, I have a 'Video Files' logical drive that is mounted to the folder 'C:\Video Files').

My issue is that one of the logical drive will dismount itself when my computer reboots. The other is fine. Has anyone ever seen anything like this?

What I have done for troubleshooting (nothing resolves the issue):
- ran scans, and haven't found any issues
- tried mounting the partition to another folder
- pulled all data off of the partition, reformatted and remounted it

Once Windows has loaded, I can remount the drive and access everything normally with no issues. It is just getting annoying having to remount the partition every time I reboot.

Extended partitions haven't been used much since Windows 2000 and above support multiple primary partitions per disk. I would try copying your data off, deleting both logical partitions and the extended partition container, and making two new primary partitions on the disk and copying the data back.

I know they support them, however, that is not how I wanted to set my drive up. I have had it set up with the extended/logical partitions for over 8 months, and it just started having an issue. I'm trying to determine what could be causing in.