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.
 
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