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

[philippo]

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

 

[Brink]

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

 

[philippo]

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)

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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:





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

 

[philippo]

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...)

 

[SIW2]

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.

 

[philippo]

Thanks