System will not see boot drive

[scottrucciprocom]

My system will not boot up. Bios sees the physical drive. Repair disc/command prompt shows the C drive as system reserve (tiny partition) and what should be the C drive shows up as the E drive. Regardless it can't repair. Furthermore it can't find my system restore points or image as they are on an external raid which the repair disc boot doesn't see. I plan to connect that drive to a usb external and transfer the restore and/or image files to the usb drive.

But it's odd that what should be the C drive shows up as E. So I'm wondering, even if I gain access to the system restore files, am I going to be able to restore the system with this going on? Any thoughts would be much appreciated.

Dell Studio XPS Win 7 pro 64

 

[Mikael Hansen]

It should be possible if your restore files are fine, yes.

If youd like, you can change the partition letters from a CMD when booting from a windows install disk (at the first window during the windows install environment, press shift+F10 to get a cmd window).
all the following commands are to be typed without quotation marks:
type "diskpart" to use the diskpart utility.
type "list volume" to get a list of disks that are available.
type "select volume #" (replace # with the number of the volume, containing the partition which you'd like to change the letter for)
type "assign letter=C" (Replace C with whatever letter you'd like)

 

[scottrucciprocom]

Thank you very much Mikael, I'll try that.

It should be possible if your restore files are fine, yes.

If youd like, you can change the partition letters from a CMD when booting from a windows install disk (at the first window during the windows install environment, press shift+F10 to get a cmd window).
all the following commands are to be typed without quotation marks:
type "diskpart" to use the diskpart utility.
type "list volume" to get a list of disks that are available.
type "select volume #" (replace # with the number of the volume, containing the partition which you'd like to change the letter for)
type "assign letter=C" (Replace C with whatever letter you'd like)