Icabod Posted November 17, 2008 Report Share Posted November 17, 2008 Hey,I have an acer laptop running Vista home premium. i have a 160gb hard drive that is split in half. today i partitioned on half again to make a dual boot setup and that worked fine. Once i had finished installing, i found that i could not do a dual boot set up and it was as if i had made no change except install a completely new version of vista. I formated the new partion in the hope that it would go back to the old setup but it didnt and its like theres nothing on the hard drive. So i ran disk recovery and found that the formated partion ( the one with out any OS ) had become the C:\ drive and the original C:\ had become D:\. So i belive that that is why it is not booting. And i was wondering how you can change the Drive letters around or mabey even delete that partition so that it is no longer a problem? in Ms dos as i can get to that from the recovery disk mabey ??Any help will be greatfully apreciatedMany thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted November 18, 2008 Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Can you boot into your Vista install disk, start the recovery console, then delete the (empty) C: partition? This should change your current D: drive back to C:. Can you start Windows now? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Icabod Posted November 18, 2008 Author Report Share Posted November 18, 2008 Can you boot into your Vista install disk, start the recovery console, then delete the (empty) C: partition? This should change your current D: drive back to C:. Can you start Windows now?I was never given a vista install disk, i dont know why but i belive that they usually dont come with laptops. All i have is a vista recovery disk. From there i can repair windows (which it finds no problem with but is on the D:\ drive ) restore from a previous point but i have no backup. I also can get into dos there, is there a way to get into the recovery console from there ?Many thanks for the reply. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ɹəuəllıʍ ʇɐb Posted November 19, 2008 Report Share Posted November 19, 2008 If you can get a DOS command prompt - that is basically your recovery console. You should be able to see your partitions, although I am unsure how to delete a partition (what DOS command?).If I were in the same situation, I would just boot into my Partition Magic CD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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