Solved System Image Recovery can't find Image on USB Drive

philippo

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I've been dual-booting Windows 8 Pro and Windows 7 Ultimate, but a while back my Windows 8 kind of went "South" and wouldn't boot at all (I got an error message that a device was "not attached"). I have a recent system image on an external USB hard drive, but when I boot to "system recovery" using my repair disk it can't seem to find my USB drive at all.

The tutorials here mention installing a SATA driver to access disks that are not recognized, but this doesn't seem to be the case.

Any suggestions?
Thanks
 

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Hello Philppo,

Double check to make sure that your BIOS or UEFI settings are set to be able to read from USB drives at boot.

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn
 

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Hello Philppo,

Double check to make sure that your BIOS or UEFI settings are set to be able to read from USB drives at boot.

Hope this helps, :)
Shawn

Thanks, Shawn
I tried setting my Seagate USB drive as the first boot device and that didn't work. It's a moot point anyway because I've gone ahead and reset Windows 8 and am now re-installing programs.

I have a different problem now, though: When I boot into Windows7 and open "My Computer" it looks as it always has, with W7 being on "C" and drive "F" being shown as where W8 is installed -- which is correct (screen shot below)

View attachment 17965

But when I boot into Windows8 and open "My Computer", it shows itself being the OS on the "C" drive and does not show the drive where Windows 7 is at all:

From W8b.jpg



Each OS is on a seperate physical disk and I know there both there as I can boot to either. How can I get W8 to recognize the "missing Disk?
Philip
 

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System One

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    Win7 & Win8 Dual Boot
OK, I went to disk management it showed, so I assigned the first possible letter available to the "unnamed" disk and it shows up fine in "My Computer" now as Disk "L".

Before I mark this "solved", though, I'd like to ask how much changing and swapping around of disk letters I can do (without getting into trouble, that is...:D)
 

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System One

  • OS
    Win7 & Win8 Dual Boot
You're ok - as long as you don't try and change the os letter. I don't think diskmgmt will let you do that from memory.
 

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System One

  • OS
    7/8/ubuntu/Linux Deepin
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