As part of trying to make an image backup of my hard drive using Ghost, it
renamed my main hard drive to "D:", and named the small unused partition at
the end of the disk to "C:". Now I can't boot up the computer because it's
looking for the operating system on the "C:" drive. So I either need to
change the name of D back to C, or tell the PC that the operating system is
now on D.

I don't have access to any windows programs like Disk Management, or even
Regedit. I do have access to Dell Recovery Console commands, but they are
limited and the only good ones are FixBoot (writes a new bootsector) and
FixMBR. But there's nothing wrong with my bootsector or master boot record -
they're just on a drive that the PC isn't looking for.

Any help would be appreciated (as I'm sure you can tell).

Thanks,

Mike

So much for 3rd party software...Try setting youre BIOS to boot to D: (1st
boot priority or similiar).However,all youre apps were installed to C: not D:
as it now is,good luck...Next time,set youre storage hd as slave to C: on the
same IDE cable,format it,then go to run,type:XCOPY C:\*.* D:\ /c/h/e/k/r
Agree to all in the DOS window,once its thru,C: is now on D: D: being the
storage hd

"Mike M." wrote:

> As part of trying to make an image backup of my hard drive using Ghost, it
> renamed my main hard drive to "D:", and named the small unused partition at
> the end of the disk to "C:". Now I can't boot up the computer because it's
> looking for the operating system on the "C:" drive. So I either need to
> change the name of D back to C, or tell the PC that the operating system is
> now on D.
>
> I don't have access to any windows programs like Disk Management, or even
> Regedit. I do have access to Dell Recovery Console commands, but they are
> limited and the only good ones are FixBoot (writes a new bootsector) and
> FixMBR. But there's nothing wrong with my bootsector or master boot record -
> they're just on a drive that the PC isn't looking for.
>
> Any help would be appreciated (as I'm sure you can tell).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

"Mike M." <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
newsC13137E-7EE8-4283-8950-(E-Mail Removed)...
> As part of trying to make an image backup of my hard drive using Ghost, it
> renamed my main hard drive to "D:", and named the small unused partition
> at
> the end of the disk to "C:". Now I can't boot up the computer because
> it's
> looking for the operating system on the "C:" drive. So I either need to
> change the name of D back to C, or tell the PC that the operating system
> is
> now on D.
>
> I don't have access to any windows programs like Disk Management, or even
> Regedit. I do have access to Dell Recovery Console commands, but they are
> limited and the only good ones are FixBoot (writes a new bootsector) and
> FixMBR. But there's nothing wrong with my bootsector or master boot
> record -
> they're just on a drive that the PC isn't looking for.
>
> Any help would be appreciated (as I'm sure you can tell).
>
> Thanks,
>
> Mike

Strange. This is the second post in as many days that reports
a change of drive letters after using Ghost to create an image
file. I'm getting biased against Ghost.

To start with I suggest two things:
- Check the Ghost FAQs. If its a common problem then
you're likely to find some answers there.
- Report exactly how far the boot process goes and what
error message(s) you see on the screen - verbatim, please!