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DiskPart Assign - use to recover Windows Startup?

Anonymous
2014-03-29T23:10:43+00:00

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.

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  1. Anonymous
    2014-03-30T17:07:18+00:00

    Hi,

    I would suggest you to allow Windows Start up repair to make the recommended changes. It appears that the boot files are corrupt and the Startup repair is trying repair this. If you are still unable to boot to the desktop after applying the recommended changes, then I would suggest you to rebuild the boot files. You can access the command prompt in Windows recovery environment and then rebuild the boot files. Refer to this article:

    http://support.microsoft.com/kb/927392/en-us

    Try this steps and let us know the results for further assistance.

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