urgent I have 2 days: New image has extra drive allocated instead of system drive
Sorry about the urgency but in a couple of days I'm leaving the country for a year and need to set this up for my 79 year old mom whose never used a pc before.
Originally there were 3 physical HDD on my PC. An SSD holding the OS, and programs installed. The other 2 HDD had 1 with 2 partitions (D: and E:) and the rd HDD, with 1 partition (F:) I created an image. I changed Drive, from an SSD to a HHD. And "moved" the old to the new via the DVD that Acronis made me create. Windows7 ended up doing some updated and then it rebooted.
Somehow my image, my new drive, now has my HD with both 'C:' and 'D:' allocating 'D' with 100MB and '0' free space. Inside 'D:' I see, Recycle bin, Boot, System Volume folders along with BOOTSECT.BAK and bootmgr (C: also has these same folders and files).
Disk Management shows "Disk 0" as Basic, 139.73GB online, & then on the right has 'D:' 1st as '100MB NTFS, Healthy Primary and then C: as System Drive, Healthy (System boot, Page file, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition.)
As far as I know a windows installation does create a small drive for system stuff but such a drive is not allocated a letter. And is usually is something like Simple, Basic Recover Partition and no file system or recovery. But no such 'drive exists in mine.
The problem is also that many things link to the original D: drive and not this 'new' one.
So how do I create the original 'empty-ish" system drive? Then remove this D" letter/drive and give it to the actual D; drive.
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