WIN XP won't read Hard Drive Partions

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Dave

I recently bought a new computer and transfered over a
100GB Western Digital Hard Drive from my old computer
that was partioned into 3 Drives. However after
installing, my new computer only reads 1 partion. I have
tried removing the hard drive and reinstalling, I have
tried hooking it back up to my old computer, but this
does not help. I trie formatting the drive via WinXP but
it still only reads my first partion. Can anyone help me?
 
Dave said:
I recently bought a new computer and transfered over a
100GB Western Digital Hard Drive from my old computer
that was partioned into 3 Drives. However after
installing, my new computer only reads 1 partion. I have
tried removing the hard drive and reinstalling, I have
tried hooking it back up to my old computer, but this
does not help. I trie formatting the drive via WinXP but
it still only reads my first partion. Can anyone help me?
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If I understand correct you have the following situation:

Your new computer with a harddisk. I presume this one has only one partition
and the computer boots from this disk (so its called C:)
An extra harddisk you installed in that computer. This old harddisk is
partionen into 3 partition (probably called something like C; D: and E:on
your old computer)

But: the new computer only sees the C:- drive

I think you should check two things to begin with:
1. When booting, but before winxp starts, does the bios detects two fixed
disks? If not, then there is something wrong withe the eide cable or the
jumpersettings. You might even have forgotten to attacht the power supply.
2. If both fysical disks are detected, then it looks like there is no
driveletter assigned to the partitions of that disk. Start
computermanagement / diskmanagemet and rightclick on the fysical disks and
assign the right driveletters. You probably want to move cdrom /dvd / writer
up in the alphabet before you assign a letter to the 3 "enw" partitions

Hope this helps you out

Gerard
 
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