Guest Mike M. Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 As part of trying to make an image backup of my hard drive using Ghost, it renamed my main hard drive to "D:", and named the small unused partition at the end of the disk to "C:". Now I can't boot up the computer because it's looking for the operating system on the "C:" drive. So I either need to change the name of D back to C, or tell the PC that the operating system is now on D. I don't have access to any windows programs like Disk Management, or even Regedit. I do have access to Dell Recovery Console commands, but they are limited and the only good ones are FixBoot (writes a new bootsector) and FixMBR. But there's nothing wrong with my bootsector or master boot record - they're just on a drive that the PC isn't looking for. Any help would be appreciated (as I'm sure you can tell). Thanks, Mike
Guest Andrew E. Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 RE: How can I change the letter designation of my boot drive? So much for 3rd party software...Try setting youre BIOS to boot to D: (1st boot priority or similiar).However,all youre apps were installed to C: not D: as it now is,good luck...Next time,set youre storage hd as slave to C: on the same IDE cable,format it,then go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,C: is now on D: D: being the storage hd "Mike M." wrote: > As part of trying to make an image backup of my hard drive using Ghost, it > renamed my main hard drive to "D:", and named the small unused partition at > the end of the disk to "C:". Now I can't boot up the computer because it's > looking for the operating system on the "C:" drive. So I either need to > change the name of D back to C, or tell the PC that the operating system is > now on D. > > I don't have access to any windows programs like Disk Management, or even > Regedit. I do have access to Dell Recovery Console commands, but they are > limited and the only good ones are FixBoot (writes a new bootsector) and > FixMBR. But there's nothing wrong with my bootsector or master boot record - > they're just on a drive that the PC isn't looking for. > > Any help would be appreciated (as I'm sure you can tell). > > Thanks, > > Mike
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 20, 2007 Posted July 20, 2007 Re: How can I change the letter designation of my boot drive? "Mike M." <MikeM@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:DC13137E-7EE8-4283-8950-8EDED44AA17E@microsoft.com... > As part of trying to make an image backup of my hard drive using Ghost, it > renamed my main hard drive to "D:", and named the small unused partition > at > the end of the disk to "C:". Now I can't boot up the computer because > it's > looking for the operating system on the "C:" drive. So I either need to > change the name of D back to C, or tell the PC that the operating system > is > now on D. > > I don't have access to any windows programs like Disk Management, or even > Regedit. I do have access to Dell Recovery Console commands, but they are > limited and the only good ones are FixBoot (writes a new bootsector) and > FixMBR. But there's nothing wrong with my bootsector or master boot > record - > they're just on a drive that the PC isn't looking for. > > Any help would be appreciated (as I'm sure you can tell). > > Thanks, > > Mike Strange. This is the second post in as many days that reports a change of drive letters after using Ghost to create an image file. I'm getting biased against Ghost. To start with I suggest two things: - Check the Ghost FAQs. If its a common problem then you're likely to find some answers there. - Report exactly how far the boot process goes and what error message(s) you see on the screen - verbatim, please!
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