Setup only find C drives in my acer laptop during windows installation

odbhoot

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i was installing win to flash to my pendrive to make it bootable for windows xp installation. then my pc was hang. i remove the pendrive and restart my acer laptop. then my harddisk drives C only shows in windows explorer and in disk management. but other Drives D,E,F are not showing anywhere. why did my harddisk drives lost? how can i recover my drives of my acer laptop 4736z.
 

apache_lives

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why on earth would you want to use that dinosaur of an OS on your laptop? forget about it seriously stick with windows 7

as for your data, if its a laptop and you had 3-4 partitions, again WHY? also a silly idea

to get your data back? explain how your hdd was setup and what you did exactly