my hd partitions DISSAPEAR, somebody hav usefull info about?

[GotikO]

Before everything, Hi everybody, my problem is the following... i hav a HP Media Center m1170n (with 200gb harddrive, windows media center 2005)modified(i changed to it the ati x300 with an ati x1300 and i added a module of 1 gb of ram ddr400). well that's not the problem... a few days ago my machine started to hav strange movements... i mean when i turn the pc on when the "loading thing" of windows appears the system just restart by itself... so it cannot advance after that point... i tried F8 to access via save mode(NOTHING), i try F10 to recover the disk via recovery partition(NOTHING) so i decided to insert a xp pro disc in the dvd rom... then i started the process of format the disk... the problem was that i just found one partition of the three i used to have(C: for windows, D: recovery partition, and E: for data)... the only one that appeared was the C but without any format.. i mean it just appeared with a message which said(UNKNOWN... that's for unknown format).. ok just to make a synthesis of this.. i think i lost my recovery partition, and all my data just because i restarted the pc and then it doesn't could load the OS again. so now my 200gb hd is 127, is there anyway i can recover my data, or in case i can't recover my data at least a way to recover my gb's back... i just installed windows xp professional(a pirate version just because i couldn't make my recovery discs before everything got lost :S, and i entered to computer management/disk management and i found this...
ahhhh and YES... theres nothing more than the C: partition with 127 gb's :S.
please if somebody can help me, tell me what can i do... thankx!! and sorry because of my writing... i have many time writing in spanish so i'm forgettin how to write english :$.


PD: i cannot send my pc to HP cuz now i'm living in Dominican Republic and i'm not going to pay all that money to repair my pc...

 

[evongugg]

Take the hard disk out of the computer, hook it up to another computer as slave. You data will probably be back. Happens to me a lot with external hard drives. Once hooked up to a different computer everything is back to normal.

 

[GotikO]

damn... i would try that. i was thinking about it but don't know... i wasn't sure... :S thankx ahhh but i have something... my harddrive is SATA... not IDE i saw yesterday that sata cannot be slave bcuz of it's unique port... only one per port.. anyways i would try it... thanks for ur time evongugg.. u r so gentle