System Restore from Recovery CD mapping to wrong drive letter


  1. snathanb
    Posts : 1
    Win 7 64 Home Premium
       New #1

    System Restore from Recovery CD mapping to wrong drive letter


    I'm trying to fix a windows issue via system restore in the recovery CD.

    The recovery CD properly recognizes my windows installation (which comes up on the "D:" drive in when booting from the recovery CD.

    I launch system restore and it sees all my restore points.

    But, when I pick a restore point and try to restore, it tries to restore to the C drive (which is a small empty partition) instead of the D drive, and tells me I have to enable system protection on that drive.

    How can I get system restore to target the right disk?
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

  3. ICIT2LOL
    Posts : 21,004
    Desk1 7 Home Prem / Desk2 10 Pro / Main lap Asus ROG 10 Pro 2 laptop Toshiba 7 Pro Asus P2520 7 & 10
       New #2

    Hello and welcome snathanb mate I don't quite know what you mean by it defaulting to ?D: drive the C: drive is the default for Windows when it is first installed any other letter drives are secondary to that drive unless I am missing something here.

    To give us a clearer idea of what you have can you post a pic of the Disk Management please?

    Plus some system specs would be good too
    System Info - See Your System Specs
      My Computer
    Quote Quote

 

  Related Discussions
Using MiniTool PartWiz, I unhid the RECOVERY (F: ) partition. Is it safe to change the drive letter to (E: )? Will it still work?
Hi, I recently did a system restore and it has created an extra hard drive RECOVERY (D:) Does anyone know how I can get rid of this, there does not seem to be any up to date info on it, only these, Dell - Recovery - Temp - tmp and ResSys I used to do a system image every night to my...
Hello, having to configure a new HP laptop with pre-installed Win7, I need to create some extra logical drives to organize things better. Unfortunately, the usual OEM scenario applies: all four possible primary partitions are already happily taken by the manufacturer: SYSTEM (no drive...
Hi all, Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit I did a sytem restore and waited for it to finish. When it did all I got was a black screen. I use acronis home image and disk director for backup purposes and when I launched it from a CD that was when I realised my C drive letter had been changed to...
Dell Inspiron E1505 running win7. Bought a new 500 Gb hard drive. I created a win7 system image from my old 50 Gb hard drive and restored it to the new drive, but now the new one is showing 50 Gb size with 412 Gb Unallocated! I tried to "extend volume" from win7 disk manager but the option...
Our Sites
Site Links
About Us
Windows 7 Forums is an independent web site and has not been authorized, sponsored, or otherwise approved by Microsoft Corporation. "Windows 7" and related materials are trademarks of Microsoft Corp.

 © Designer Media Ltd
All times are GMT -5. The time now is 07:03.
Find Us