I have three drives (one PATA, two SATA) which each have single primary NTFS partitions on them. I cannot boot from any of these because the XP installation on the system drive is corrupt. When I boot using a DSL live CD, I can mount two of them (one PATA, one SATA) but not the third (although I suspect that may be some limitation of the distro). When I boot using Vista from a fourth drive, I can mount one of the SATA drives, but the others appear as "Raw" (unformatted).
If I try to repair the XP installation by booting from the CD, all three drives appear as unformatted.

Could this have anything to do with them being configured as dynamic volumes while under XP?
Or does anyone have any other thoughts on why I might not be able to mount them all properly?


— P