HD partitions lost

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I added a new hard drive. I used Disk managmenet in WIN XP PRO to
partition the new drive. Then I formated the partitions, one on 20GB
and one one almost 100GB. Then I copied what I needed from my old hard
drive over to the new one. Then I sold my old one. Then I bootet from
a Win Xp setup cd to install WIN XP on the first partition, but the
partitions where not reqonized (only the whole 120GB disk). So i
hooked up my new harddrive to a computer with WIN XP installed, but my
new harddrive was not detected here as well. When I go into Disk
Managment it is detected as an unpartitioned dynamic drive and it has
an small yellow warning sign on it. I have tried DIY Irecover to
access it, and it finds the files and restores them but I am unable to
open them.

How can I solve this? Is there any settings in Irecover I can use to
retrive the data back as readable? Please help anyone...

Thanks,

Eiki
 
Convert the disk to basic. You wont be able to install onto a native
dynamic disk.
 
eiki said:
I added a new hard drive. I used Disk managmenet in WIN XP PRO to
partition the new drive. Then I formated the partitions, one on 20GB
and one one almost 100GB. Then I copied what I needed from my old hard
drive over to the new one. Then I sold my old one. Then I bootet from
a Win Xp setup cd to install WIN XP on the first partition, but the
partitions where not reqonized (only the whole 120GB disk). So i
hooked up my new harddrive to a computer with WIN XP installed, but my
new harddrive was not detected here as well. When I go into Disk
Managment it is detected as an unpartitioned dynamic drive and it has
an small yellow warning sign on it. I have tried DIY Irecover to
access it, and it finds the files and restores them but I am unable to
open them.

How can I solve this? Is there any settings in Irecover I can use to
retrive the data back as readable? Please help anyone...

Thanks,

Eiki
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