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How can I change the Recovery Partition to Drive letter "M"?

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  • 20-09-2014 8:31pm
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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,301 ✭✭✭✭


    Hey,
    So original HDD is near the end of it's days. "Too many bad sectors" is the error I get when run a check on it. Doesn't boot into Windows. So, I made an image of the Recovery Partition, and put it onto a new HDD.

    Unfortunately, when I boot up the recovery program off the CD, it doesn't see the partition under "M", but instead under "E". Highly annoying. Have installed a temp (unactivated) version of Windows, and installed some program that makes it come up as "M" in the Windows, but it still comes up as "E" when I boot the recovery disc.

    So, anyway to force it to be seen as the "M" drive?


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    #2
    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,301 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Hrm. Seems Diskpart via the "Command Prompt" on the repair Console may be my way out :D


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,301 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Nope, bah. Listed the Recovery Partition as M in Diskpart, ran the Recovery Management, but it inputed a 99.9MB "System Reserved" volume as "M", and pushed what I had selected as "M" to "N". Bah.


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    the_syco
    Registered Users Posts: 37,301 ✭✭✭✭the_syco


    Uh. Crisis averted. Even though I had put in the OA serial when installing Windows, it still inserted a random OEM code, but when I put the OA again, it activated okay. Would have preferred the other way, as now I have to install all the crap back on :/


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    degsie
    Registered Users Posts: 8,748 ✭✭✭degsie


    No wonder your post count is high...:)


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