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Complications with system image recovery onto a new SSD
So here is my deal. Pre-hard drive change – I had three drives: C/operating system (60gb SSD); d/data drive (1TB HDD); f/data drive (64gb SSD). I planned to change out the c drive with a larger ssd drive and merge the data from the f drive to the new c drive. I created an image and stored on an external drive as well as the internal d drive.
I then swapped out the c drive with the new ssd drive and loaded the image onto it. It worked well and the computer was functioning properly. Knowing that everything was working fine I needed to destroy the data on the original c ssd drive as well as the f drive so I deleted the data on the f drive using command prompt and started it on the original c drive but for some reason did not complete the process.
Now, I can no longer re-boot back into windows on the new ssd drive. I think where it got screwed up was because I had saved material from the c drive (and g partition) and the f drive onto the image, but now I no longer have the f drive installed.
When I go into my windows repair disk it doesn’t want to repair the drive to make it work, nor does it allow me to use the saved image (potentially because it is searching for the f drive which is not there). The error message “element not found. (0x80070490) system image” occurs when I attempt to install the system image. When I go to do the system image recovery it says that it will restore material on the c, g (reserved partition), and f drives. The thing is, none of the drives that I have connected have those drive labels any longer because they are re-assigned a new label because I have un-plugged and re-connected them. Could this be the problem? If so, can I change the drive labels in command prompt?
The other thing is that the computer is not even reading/finding the f drive the I had wiped clean. Is there a step that I have to do for it to locate/find it?
Any help would be much appreciated. I probably should not have been playing with this myself in the first place as I have little computer experience. I should have paid to have it done at a computer shop. Thanks.