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Can't boot from internal drive, and C: seems to be empty
Hi everyone. This is my first post. I'm running W7 on a HP laptop, and my machine suddenly refused to boot. I got the error message about incorrect shut down, tried to boot it in safe mode and all other modes offered, but couldn't get past a file called aswRvrt.sys.
I've been able to boot from an installation DVD and tried repairing startup, restoring to last working restore point, but no luck.
Also, I thought all my files were supposed to be on C drive ( which is still listed as the System drive), but now they're on another drive -- which has changed a couple of times (first it was called D: then later that changed to E: when I rebooted from the CD). The C drive now seems to have nothing on it when I run "dir" command at DOS prompt. It says
"Volume in drive C is SYSTEM
Volume Serial number is CC01-3478
Directory of C:\
File not found"
If I look at the list of drives using notepad Save As (running from DOS prompt), C drive does seems to have something invisible on it that shows up as taking up 35 MB of a total of 198 MB (which sounds like a very small C: drive to me).
Has my boot drive somehow been renamed as D:? Is that even possible? Can I just use "diskpart" to rename it, or will that wreck things even more?
Thanks for reading this far, and for offering any suggestions you may have.