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Windows 7 will not boot as drive letter changed from C: to E:
Hi support/helpers
My laptop was booting, but got locked up at one point, well it was not doing anything and seemed to be stuck. Maybe I should have left it a little longer to see if it sorted itself out but I didn't. I held the on/off button down to do a "hard restart". In hind site a dumb thing to do but you can only stare at screen for so long and move a mouse backward and forward with nothing else happening.
The laptop will now not boot, it goes into repair mode but cannot solve anything. It gives me an option to go to the C: prompt in repair mode, which I can do.
The Problem:
my original C: drive is now my E: drive, my D: drive is now my C: drive, my E: drive is now my D: drive.
Everything seems to be ok folders and files etc. just the drive letters messed up.
I guess I corrupted something. Is there a way of getting the drive letters corrected so I can boot into windows?
Information:
I cannot press F8 to get to safe mode etc.
In the bios my hard drive is seen and is the first boot drive
My hard drive does have 3 partitions, originally c,d, e. C was where windows 7 was installed too.
I see a recovery folder but dated 2009 and to scared to use it as so old, not that I know how to use it.
Any help would be appreciated, hoping for a simple free utility I can download to sort it all out.
Andy