System restore changed my C drive letter so can't boot


  1. aiofe
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    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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    System restore changed my C drive letter so can't boot


    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 F and my 'System Reserved' now has a drive letter of E

    I have taken out the drive and hooked it up to a laptop, the drive itself is fine and all the information is there, just that it now has different drive letters.

    Is there any way to fix this?
    Can I use the laptop to reassign the drive letter back to C (Bearing in mind the laptop has a C drive) and get the 'System Reserved' back to where it belongs (With or without a drive letter)?

    Thanks for any help
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  3. wanchoo
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    Windows 7 Pro with SP1 32bit
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    What you did is not clear. Did you do a system restore with the built in restore option or you restored an Image that was made with Acronis? Please clarify.
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  4. aiofe
    Posts : 4
    Windows 7 Home Premium 64 bit
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    wanchoo said:
    What you did is not clear. Did you do a system restore with the built in restore option or you restored an Image that was made with Acronis? Please clarify.
    Hi Wanchoo, I did a Windows system restore.



    I managed to bumble my way to a fix.

    I disconnected all other hard drives and left just the 'C' drive in, started up and got to a splash screen that said something like "Startup Repair"
    Ran that and after about 10 minutes it asked me to restart ... and all was fine.
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