new dell w/windows 7 crashes

new laptop crashed. when I restored it now startes in Recovery C: drive instead of OS D: drive. Have tried to use CD to restore but can't get it to change drives. Anyone have help.

After the recovery cd finishes searching for installations, click Next.

Select command prompt.

Type:

Diskpart

then press enter.

lis vol

then press enter - make an note of exactly what it says and post it back here.

Exi

then press enter.

Volume XXX
Volume 0 E Win_7_Homep UDF DVD-Rom 5884 MB Healthy
Volume 1 C Recovery NTFS Partition 14 GB Healthy
Volume 2 D OS NTSF Partition 451 GB Healthy
Volume 3 FAT Partition 39 MB Healthy Hidden

Thank you so much for your help. Hope this tells you what you needed to know.

SIW2 I did what you posted. I am anxious to here from you as to what next. This new computer is my 45th wedding anniversary gift. I would love for it to work properly so any help you can give me will be very appreciated.

Hi,

Try marking D as the active partition.

Boot the 7 dvd to command prompt.

Type:

diskpart

sel vol d

act

exi.

Hope it helps.

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