What is x:(boot) drive?

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  1. OneWithNoName
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    I'm repairing a laptop for a friend. their laptop is a Toshiba that they purchased from BestBuy.

    Pressing F6 (i think it was) during boot would open up to a pre-boot diagnostic menu that runs out of an X:/ drive.

    A myrid of small programs are available at this screen including a DOS prompt.

    I used this to run a chkdsk on C drive as you can not do that while booted.

    This X:/ partition is a Pre-BIOS enviroment and is built into the computer.
    Last edited by OneWithNoName; 30 Mar 2013 at 01:48.
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  3. gollem024
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       New #32

    I know this is old, but thought this may help, and at the same time help me. I too, have the X: but it seems to be my Blu ray drive that is somehow partitioned off? Was having an issue with a bad SSD drive, and I noticed after messing around with that SSD that I now have Windows files on X:, which in my BIOS shows up as my Bluray drive. I show that I have 2 Bluray drives in BIOS when i only have one. Does this make any sense?
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  4. AddRAM
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       New #33

    Please post a shot of disk management.
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