Why do partitions change when secondary drive moved between systems

[Thorpe]

I've got a 2nd and 3rd drive, one's a 300 and the other a 400 gig
drive.......they both had one partition and file system on each drive
and were full of data. To be honest I can't remember if they were
dynamic disks and formatted with XP as NTFS or if they were basic disk
and formatted under linux as FAT32, in any event they were working fine
on my XP system at home. When I brought them into the office and put
them on another XP system the partition seems to have been re-written,
now there's a 120 something gig partition and the rest is
unallocated........and the 120 gig partition is unformatted. Both the
XP at home and the office have the latest updated installed via MS
update....any idea how this happened and how to get the partition table
back to the way it was so I can get at my data?

 

[Poprivet]

I've got a 2nd and 3rd drive, one's a 300 and the other a 400 gig
drive.......they both had one partition and file system on each drive
and were full of data. To be honest I can't remember if they were
dynamic disks and formatted with XP as NTFS or if they were basic disk
and formatted under linux as FAT32, in any event they were working
fine on my XP system at home. When I brought them into the office
and put them on another XP system the partition seems to have been
re-written, now there's a 120 something gig partition and the rest is
unallocated........and the 120 gig partition is unformatted. Both the
XP at home and the office have the latest updated installed via MS
update....any idea how this happened and how to get the partition
table back to the way it was so I can get at my data?

What happens if you take them back home and reconnect them to the original
machine?

Pop`

 

[Thorpe]

What happens if you take them back home and reconnect them to the original
machine?

Pop`

I still see the 120 something gig unformatted partition....somehow both
the partition table got overwritten looks like.

 

[Thorpe]

What happens if you take them back home and reconnect them to the original
machine?

Pop`

I still see the 120 something gig unformatted partition....somehow both
the partition table got overwritten looks like.