Hello
I recently took my hard drive out of my laptop, and plugged it into an external USB drive to copy some files to another laptop.
Upon putting the hard drive back into my laptop, windows 8 would no longer boot. It would get to the Operating System select screen (I also boot Win 7 on this system) and when I select windows 8, it would go to a black screen, hard drive light would flicker for a bit and it would just stay stuck on this black screen.
When I rebooted, and from the operating system select screen accessed the Command Prompt, I noticed that the partition where Windows 8 was, was no longer on C:\. Instead, it was now residing at D:\, and C:\ was the system reserved partition, which i think is the boot partition in windows 8?
So I'm guessing - and correct me if im wrong - that when i select Windows 8 from the operating system screen, it is searching for the operating system in C:\ as it used to be, but now somehow that partition now exists as D:\, so it cant find the files and just hangs.
If this is the case, then I suppose I either need my windows 8 partition to reclaim C:\, or i need to change the boot settings somehow to load windows from its new home at d:\. Im guessing the first option is the best way to go back to exactly how things were. I dont know how to do either.
So I'm not sure what happened here, when I plugged my hard drive via an external USB caddy it seems to have changed a few things around on the drive, like assigning the system reserved partition a drive letter - it shouldnt even have a letter should it?
As a side note, Windows 7 does boot correctly from this laptop - im guessing because when you select windows 7 it restarts the machine and the OS can only see 1 partition - that where windows 7 resides. Also I have a run a chkdsk on the windows 8 partition and it came back with no problems.
I recently took my hard drive out of my laptop, and plugged it into an external USB drive to copy some files to another laptop.
Upon putting the hard drive back into my laptop, windows 8 would no longer boot. It would get to the Operating System select screen (I also boot Win 7 on this system) and when I select windows 8, it would go to a black screen, hard drive light would flicker for a bit and it would just stay stuck on this black screen.
When I rebooted, and from the operating system select screen accessed the Command Prompt, I noticed that the partition where Windows 8 was, was no longer on C:\. Instead, it was now residing at D:\, and C:\ was the system reserved partition, which i think is the boot partition in windows 8?
So I'm guessing - and correct me if im wrong - that when i select Windows 8 from the operating system screen, it is searching for the operating system in C:\ as it used to be, but now somehow that partition now exists as D:\, so it cant find the files and just hangs.
If this is the case, then I suppose I either need my windows 8 partition to reclaim C:\, or i need to change the boot settings somehow to load windows from its new home at d:\. Im guessing the first option is the best way to go back to exactly how things were. I dont know how to do either.
So I'm not sure what happened here, when I plugged my hard drive via an external USB caddy it seems to have changed a few things around on the drive, like assigning the system reserved partition a drive letter - it shouldnt even have a letter should it?
As a side note, Windows 7 does boot correctly from this laptop - im guessing because when you select windows 7 it restarts the machine and the OS can only see 1 partition - that where windows 7 resides. Also I have a run a chkdsk on the windows 8 partition and it came back with no problems.
My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win 8 32bit