Until this year, I have used Windows XP SP3 32 bit for a long time. Due to the HDD capacity restriction of XP system, I installed "Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Server" to enable HDD support above 2TB on Windows XP. The HDDs are only for data storage, not for system.
This year, I tried to migrate XP to Windows 8.1. I found those HDD partitions created in Windows XP can't be recognized in Windows 8.1. I have "Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Server" installed in Windows 8.1, too. Is it possible to make my Windows 8.1 recognize HDD partitions created by Windows XP (using Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Server)?
I don't know for sure if my problem related to "Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Server". It's just a guess. I guess "Paragon Hard Disk Manager 12 Server", in order to support large capacity HDD, creates private non-standard partition and adopts some virtual image loader to make Windows XP recognize those HDD partitions. In Windows 8.1, the image loader just does not work as it does in Windows XP. It caused my problem.
I can still access those HDDs in Windows XP. For now, I am copying data from the PC running XP to another PC running Windows 8.1 through network. The speed is rather limited.
Do you have any clue about my problem? Thanx for your reply in advance.