Drive Letters Missing from Disk Management after Recovery
After performing a recovery on a Windows 7, 64bit system with a Adaptec RAID card, the drive letters "D" and "H" are mssing when trying to change a Drive letter in Disk Management.
I have a Data drive that has always been given the letter "D" so every shortcut points to it, of course nothing will now.
How do I resolve this?
Cheers :)
Hi there, changing drive letters is simple, however, both letters are mssing in this case. I have never ever seen this with any previous recovery.
So I can't change or add the drive letter "D" as it is not being displayed in Disk Management.
Cheers :)
Due to the Adaptec card, this may be more involved then it looks. I am not a technician so perhaps one can respond to your situation.
I would use the Disk Management tool and remove the currently assigned wrong letter in both instances and see if a reboot helps.
Do make sure that the small system reserved partition did not acquire a letter. Remove any if assigned. That partition is not visible in the current attachment.
Perhaps it would help if you were to post a screen capture of your Windows Disk Management graphical view and this would include the partitions or disk without any drive letters where there is supposed to be drive letters.
Ultimately, you can try removing the drive letter on all partitions except C and try res-assigning. However, if you have an active Raid array, this could be an issue. Perhaps someone else has some answers for your specific situation.
I am assuming that you booted from the TI Recovery CD and performed the restore. Was the wrong lettered partitions part of the restore? Most restores do not involve drive letters so these letters changing is a surprise.
I used the TI recovery CD, and when the restore was occuring it mentioned the D drive, there was only a backup drive involved (where the image was coming from, and this previously had E as its drive letter) and the Adaptec card with 3 drives on it (C drive Mirror + Hot Spare).
I have tried removing the Drive letter (currently G) and restarting the system. Windows didn't reasign a letter, so after reboot I reasigned G as it was the first available letter after A and B.
I posted a screenshot in my first post.
Cheers :)
You should always assign unique drive labels to each partition, so you can identify them during recovery. True Image Rescue Media is Linux, not Windows, so it will enumerate volumes differently. You must use drive labels to ensure you know which volume is which.
You should always assign unique drive labels to each partition
I have never ever had this issue in the past, and usually only have 2 drives in use, the new drive and the one where the images are coming from.
Many users post here after causing problems by misidentifying their drives. Adding labels is so simple and such a good way to identify drives even when letters change that we recommend that everyone do it.
Adding labels is so simple and such a good way to identify drives even when letters change that we recommend that everyone do it.
Once I resolve the issue, is there a tutorial on doing this?
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Just open Windows Disk Management, select a partition and add a label. You'll find it's pretty simple.
EDIT: Actually, I think if you're just labelling (not lettering) you can even do it in Windows Explorer. Select a partition, right-click and choose "Rename".
I already do this, every single drive is always renamed so I know what they are called and what they are used for; as seen in my screenshot of the first post.
When I placed the image back on, there were only the 4 drives, (3 on the RAID card which were C drive), and the other one was a backup drive. However during the reimaging sequence I did notice the “D” was mentioned by TI, I was a little confused by this, however as there were no other drives plugged in, thought TI must have been seeing the 2 drives being used in RAID for the C Drive, as 2 separate drives (at that point) for whatever reason.
Though this doesn’t in any way explain why H is missing from the available letters, and given that the Adaptec card has its own BIOS, as far as I am aware TI should only have seen the 2 RAIDed drives as a single disk.
I’ve placed dozens of images back on over the years with TI and NEVER ever seen this issue before.
Cheers :)
You can look at option 2 at this link. It might be a means of making the correction.
Option 3 is also a possibility.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/82994-drive-letter-add-change-remo…
Your screenshot in post #1 is partially hidden with drive letters, wouldyou repost a new screen capture of the disk management again so all is displayed.
I personally like to include the drive letter as part of the volume name. For example:
Win7-64_C
Data_D
Backup1_E (or whatever drive letter permanently assigned)
Backup2_F (or whatever drive letter permanently assigned)
Having drive letters as part of the name helps to avoid confusion when performing backups and restores but this just a matter of my personal preference.
Evidently the drive letter is hung or locked and until it is unlocked, the letters D & H will not be available.
You might try running chkdsk x: /r (where x is drive letter in use) on the data partition.
Also disconnect all your external disks just in case you may have an "in use" file on an external which might be tied to the original d or H.
Which partition should have the drive letter H?
Here is another possibility as well:
http://www.sevenforums.com/general-discussion/39481-cant-change-hard-dr…
Thank you both for your help. It was a very basic user error, as in me not scrolling down. Helped when I opened the window full size to make another screenshot, to which I then found my 3 missing Blu-ray drives (which was the second issue I was going to look into today).
Cheers :)
Thank you for the update. I very very glad the solultion was just a simple removal of the wrong letters and the addition of the correct letters.
Do consider adding drive letters to the volume names and volume C could use a name and letter.