My question:
Can I change the drive letters with DiskPart Asign to recover my Win7(64) system startup?
I think System Recovery Tools - Startup Repair swapped the partition letters around so the Win7 system files are now in E:\
If so, should the drive letters be the same as the Windows drive letters?
System Reserve (no drive letter assigned)
C:\ Win7 Programs
etc.
Problem:
I had a degraded RAID 1 and after I powered down and replaced the bad HDD the System Startup recommending a startup repair. I entered System Recovery Tools - Repair Startup and things went haywire and now “Start Normally causes a BSOD.
Now when I run Startup Repair it recommends these changes:
name: {Bootmgr}
Startup options will be added:
name: Windows Recovery Environment (recovered)
Path: Recovery\97836fb3-xxxxx-xxxx----xxxxxxx\winre.wim
Windows Device: Partition=E: (614400MB)
A copy of current boot config data saved as: c:\boot\BCD.backup.0001
Symptoms:
Without the repair if I “Start Normally” system will BOSD
If I disconnect the SDD the system will want a boot dive/media even with the HDD (drive 0) as the first drive. in the BIOS
I anticipate the system is loading the System Recovery Tools from the Rapid Start Technology (RST) Cache on the SDD.
System normally boots from the HDD but the RST makes the SDD the Boot drive.
System Details:
Intel DZ77GA-70K motherboard w/Win7(64bit) Pro.
1 ea. 180GB SDD for RAID Cache and Data Volume.
2 ea. 2TB SATA HDD, RAID 1, however only 1 HDD is currently in the RAID Volume
RAID is Intel Rapid Storage Technology (RST) ROM (config. during boot):
SDD = RAID Data Volume - RAID ID=0, 103GB, status=Bootable
SDD = RAID Cache - RAID ID=1, 64GB,
HDD – RAID Volume 1 – RAID ID-2, 1.8TB, status=Bootable
HDD Diagnostics: (partition letters are mixed up)
DiskPart Disk 0, detail partition:
Partition 1, Volume=2, C:, Primary, Active, name: System Reserved, 100MB, Healthy
Partition 2, Volume=3, E:, name: Win7 Programs (includes Windows folder), 600GB, Healthy
Partition 3, Volume=4, F:, name: RAID Data Volume, 600GB, Healthy
Partition 4, Volume =5, D:, name: RAID Volume, 400GB, Healthy
I have no desire to REPAIR the startup problem with the system folder assigned to E: and/or with all the other partitions swapped around for all the confusion that will create once Windows opens!!
Before the disaster:
System Reserve partition (100MB) (no drive letter)
C: Win7 Programs (600GB)
D: RAID Data Volume 1 (600GB)
E: RAID Volume (400GB)
As you can see the assigned drives letters are all mixed up.