Missing partition after HDD relocated to new PC

[emil_lam]

Hi,

I hoped this story is not too lengthy to read.

One of my PC's motherboard was "burnt out" days ago. In this PC (call
it PC-A) I installed 2 DMA-33 HDD with 3 partitions : C:\ & D:\ in one
40GB HDD (call this HDD-A) while E:\ in another 80GB HDD (call it HDD-
B). C:\ had Windows ME installed while E:\ had Windows XP installed.
Both D:\ & E:\ formatted in FAT32.

Because it takes time for me to buy another motherboard and other
damaged components such as display card & power supply, I prefer to
instsll HDD-A in another PC (call it PC-B). In PC-B I installed 1 80GB
DMA-33 HDD (call this HDD-C) & 1 SATA HDD (call this HDD-D). HDD-C had
2 partitions C:\ & D:\ formatted in FAT32 while HDD-D had single
partition F:\ also formatted in FAT32. Windows XP Professional was
installed in HDD-C C:\ while Windows XP Home was installed in HDD-C D:
\

To install HDD-A in PC-B I connected HDD-C & HDD-A in the IDE bus (HDD-
C as master). Then I booted up PC-B. Everything seemed normal but I
found later that HDD-A C:\ was missing. HDD-A D:\ was reconfigured by
PC-B as new G:\ (E:\ being allocated to DVD drive).

I didn't what happen because I had once connected HDD-A as the only
IDE HDD of PC-B (HDD-C disconnected) and booted up PC-B, Windows ME
tried start and continously reporting new HW found while booting and
tried running scandisk. Based on this behaviour I assumed C:\ was not
damaged.

Couldn't any help suggest how could I access the original C:\ of HDD-A
in this new PC-B ?

Tks!

 

[Guest]

Not so much lengthly as to much confusing....Either way,hope all was installed
with only the installation hd connected to the pc at that time.To access hd
info,
go to run,type:cmd In cmd typeiskPart In DiskPart type:list disk
Type:list
volume Type:HELP For all cmds Also,in run,type:Msinfo32 Hardware
tab,expand
the tree.

 

[emil_lam]

Not so much lengthly as to much confusing....Either way,hope all was installed
with only the installation hd connected to the pc at that time.To accesshd
info,
go to run,type:cmd In cmd typeiskPart In DiskPart type:list disk
Type:list
volume Type:HELP For all cmds Also,in run,type:Msinfo32 Hardware
tab,expand
the tree.

But what's the use of your mentioned commands in my case except
listing current status again ? I'm sorry that I couldn't see any
insight these commands could reveal. Anyway, here's the information
listed from the commands (sorry that some field names may not be you
expected as I'm not using English Windows XP)

list disk

HDD ## Status Size Useable Dyn Gpt
HDD 0 Online 57 GB 0
HDD 1 Online 37 GB 0
HDD 2 Online 298 GB 0

ps: HDD 0 was HDD-C I mentioned (oops I remembered its size
wrongly !), HDD 1 was HDD-A, the HDD with missing partition, HDD 2 was
HDD-D.

list volume

Volume ## Ltr Label Fs Type Size Status Info
Partition 0 E DVD_VR UDF DVD-ROM 4277 MB
Partition 1 System C FAT32 HDD partition 29 GB status good
Partition 2 D FAT32 HDD partition 29 GB status good
Partition 3 G FAT32 HDD partition 37 GB status good
Partition 4 F NTFS HDD partition 298 GB status good
Partition 5 H Removable 0 B
Partition 6 I Removable 0 B
Partition 7 J FAT32 Removable 1962 MB

ps: Partition 5-7 were reserved imation Datafab MotionFlash 23 in 1
card reader for mobile storage cards such as MMC, SD, CF

I don't list msinfo32 information here as the HW resource info were
just as above.