DD10 - Resized C: with DD10 - Now will NOT boot up laptop
I used DD10 yesterday to steal 15GB from a partition that I do not use much. In resizing that partition - almost all my drive letters changed when it booted back up - with Computer Management on Win7 64bit I was able to rename all my partitions to the correct drive letters and was able to run everything again.
Now with 15GB unallocated space JUST after the C: 100GB partition I resized C: to grab all of it and supposedly make it 115GB as it showed it was setup to do. The system when through the DOS looking process in two steps but when it tried to bootup the computer just a blinking cursor on a black empty screen is showing after the ASUS preloading was done. So no bootup.
Being an ASUS notebook, I tried to see if F9 for the recovery would come up - and it does but I do not want to blow away my stuff.
Looks like the resizing might have reassigned the drive letter for my boot partition or something. HOW CAN I FIX THIS? This is my production computer and this has put me at a standstill. I had to borrow someone's computer to post this message. HELP ASAP Please!!!!
Thanks
Arnold
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I was able to boot the notebook with the Acronis Recovery Disc I created for the previous workstation and found with the Safe Mode version on Disk Director - that the Drives Letters were all changed with the resizing process and so the boot partition became D: and the Recovery partition became C: and all my other partitions were messed up too (bunch of them). So I tried to look for Change Letter and it was NOT available. The Full Version of DD could not start. Any hints on getting the partition letters changed?
I am now in the Acronis Reovery Expert trying to get the real C: drive recovered from backup - kind of messed up now.
I have used DD10 to change partition letters and to resize before but now it has acted really strange - it is an update to the version I believe originally did these actions. Possibly a bug or me not doing something right - because the Windows drive letters reflected DD10 (not sure about DD10 CD)
I may be over my head getting hints from a friend who has worked thru DD Server issues before not the Home version.
So I may be digging a deeper grave here for myself because my C: drive content is now unallocated and the C: and D: letters moved to Disk 2 from Disk 1 when I tried to recover the real C: backup and resize that partition to take up the unallocated space. I had a recover error and now trying to reover from that with Acronis Recovery Expert doing a long process it appears = Searching for Deleted Partitions.
This is not fun!
Thanks for any help,
Arnold
It appears that it would have been more ideal to boot up with a Win7 DVD and access the hard drives and used Computer Management module to reassign the partition letters like I did before and try to boot up. But now I am deep into another direction suggested by an associate. Still think there is something wrong with DD10 changing the letter of partitions on a resize operation.
If the partitions are now showing as unallocated space you would need to restore them from a backup image (with TI, for example) or undelete them (like you're trying to do). The undelete scans can take a while, but if the original partition started at the beginning of the drive it should find it quickly. Did the "fast" scan not find them?
This is a perfect example of why I recommend creating an Entire Disk Image backup before making partitioning changes.
I will not be so casual when I do resizing or partition changes ever again. It was so easy the first time I did not think twice about doing something i thought was simple. Thanks MudCrab.
If I knew it would be better - I will upgrade to the latest versions as soon as I am whole again.
FYI - the undeleted scan yield nothing after over 12 hours of scanning. So I lost my "C: Drive" content. I sought after a Rescue Disk from a friend who also bought the same laptop as me and also had purchased and used True Image - that would have been a better way to recover in the beginning I believe but now I have lost about two weeks if this latest attempt to works but that is better than nothing. The Drive letters do move around - so not sure it will boot up with a letter change intervention with Disk Director (Full Version) if that works - the Safe Mode was all I could pull up initially and not able to change letters of the partitions. More later.
after resizing your booting partition with DD, you may need to boot up with win7 setup DVD and choose repair. then it will boot up again with resized partition
Used DD..primary partition has c,d,e..wanted to take unused space from d,e and add to c. Now when boot= no os...(w7)..tried to repair/restore from w7 cd but= boot sector is corrupt/0x490..cannot get into windoz to do repair or restore point..any Ideas..thanks