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The disappearance of local disk (D:) after full system recovery in Vista Home Premium
Lesson learned the hardway: After accidentally deleting a number of bios settings, and receiving an error message that read: Your Operating Sytem is missing., when simply trying to change the boot sequence order of my OS, I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium with the OS disk and the apps. and drivers from the recovery disks I had made shortly after purchase. I was not aware that running this utility would delete the contents of local disk (Ddrive permanently even after complete system restore. My question is: I now have a local disk (D drive with capacity 9.79GB listed in my computer where it should be, and inside I see a BOOTSEC.BAK file size 8k as the only contents. What am I supposed to do with this file? And what should be done about the 8+GB space left in this drive? -- Killborn |
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The disappearance of local disk (D:) after full system recovery in Vista Home Premium
Are you sure it only has that file in it the files could be hidden. Have you checked the properties for the drive too. When you installed from the recovery discs it should have copied all the files from the discs into there. -- mansrm81 If you think I helped you fix your problem give me some rep . Click on the scales. [image: http://www.vistax64.com/members/mans...-untitled.jpg] |
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The disappearance of local disk (D:) after full system recovery in Vista Home Premium
On Mon, 24 Nov 2008 01:59:25 -0600, Killborn
wrote: Lesson learned the hardway: After accidentally deleting a number of bios settings, and receiving an error message that read: Your Operating Sytem is missing., when simply trying to change the boot sequence order of my OS, I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium with the OS disk and the apps. and drivers from the recovery disks I had made shortly after purchase. I was not aware that running this utility would delete the contents of local disk (Ddrive permanently even after complete system restore. My question is: I now have a local disk (D drive with capacity 9.79GB listed in my computer where it should be, and inside I see a BOOTSEC.BAK file size 8k as the only contents. What am I supposed to do with this file? And what should be done about the 8+GB space left in this drive? If you're saying that what USED to be a recovery partition is now just empty space... Go to Administrative Tools/Computer Management/Disk Management. Delete "D" and resize "C" to fill the void. -- Max |
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The disappearance of local disk (D:) after full system recovery in Vista Home Premium
FWIW in future, there is a setting in the BIOS to set defaults, which will
put it back to the condition it was in prior to any 'tweaking' you may have done "Killborn" wrote in message ... Lesson learned the hardway: After accidentally deleting a number of bios settings, and receiving an error message that read: Your Operating Sytem is missing., when simply trying to change the boot sequence order of my OS, I reinstalled Windows Vista Home Premium with the OS disk and the apps. and drivers from the recovery disks I had made shortly after purchase. I was not aware that running this utility would delete the contents of local disk (Ddrive permanently even after complete system restore. My question is: I now have a local disk (D drive with capacity 9.79GB listed in my computer where it should be, and inside I see a BOOTSEC.BAK file size 8k as the only contents. What am I supposed to do with this file? And what should be done about the 8+GB space left in this drive? -- Killborn |
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The disappearance of local disk (D:) after full system recovery in Vista Home Premium
Hi man, i have just fixed this problem on my computer so i creted an account on this website to help you out. ok i will tell you what to do step by step, the process takes about 2 minutes to complete, so its really easy ok here we go 1. Control Panel 2. Administrative Tools 3. Computer Managment 4. Disk Managment [under "storage" There you will get your local disc C:\ (in blue) and beside it there will be just some ammount of disk space (in black) 5. Right click on it and select properties, then just do step by step and you will complete it, just create a new disk really easy hope helps If there are problmes, post to me i will try to explain in more detail -- zilvinas ------------------------------------------------------------------------ zilvinas's Profile: http://forums.techarena.in/members/162161.htm View this thread: http://forums.techarena.in/vista-fil...nt/1076699.htm http://forums.techarena.in |