Solved Lost Drive Letters

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This morning, my laptop wouldn't boot and I got a message saying I needed to use the recovery disk to fix the problem. A little investigating using the command prompt from that disk revealed my system and data partitions had no drive letter assigned to them. Go figure! A little work with Diskpart fixed that but left me wondering what would have caused them to disappear.

Has anyone else experienced this?
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
    System Manufacturer/Model
    Dell XPS 8500
    CPU
    3.1g Intel Core i5-3350P
    Motherboard
    Dell 0nW73C A000
    Graphics Card(s)
    AMD RADEON HD 7570
    Sound Card
    AMD high definition audio device
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Samsung AMB23301
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    1TB Manufacturer not known
    Internet Speed
    Cox High Speen
    Browser
    Firefox
Hi JJG,

I (personally) have not seen that happen before; however, I have seen the 350MB system reserved partition show up as a "blank for name" after a Windows upgrade attempt and that was easily remedied by naming it as the System Reserved partition. Good luck.
 

My Computer

System One

  • OS
    Windows 8
    Computer type
    PC/Desktop
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