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 one 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 know what happened 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 startup and continously reporting new HW found while booting and tried running scandisk. Based on this behaviour I assumed C:\ was not damaged.

Could someone help suggest how could I access the original C:\ of HDD-A in this new PC-B ?

Tks!