Replying to myself:
I can see in the Windows Disk Management utility that both partitions are still there on the disk, but no drive letter seems to get assigned to the partitions! Very strange.
I guess I can simply add a drive letter, but is it dangerous to do this? (isn't this 'forcing' things?) I really don't want to risk losing my data!
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Riocar 80gig S/N : 010101580 red
Riocar 80gig (010102106) - backup