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Title: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: kovette on August 04, 2009, 09:16:35 AM

I had a massive crash on my desk to HP m9000.  I downloaded a recovery disk only to find that a secondary hard drive had been renamed to c:.  There appears to still be a boot drive listed but does not do anything.  How can I rename the seondary drive back to e: where it belongs?  Has C: drive been damaged beyond recovery
I am running AVG free virus protection but the e-mail scanning quit a couple days before the crask.  HELP!!!!

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: patio on August 04, 2009, 09:20:13 AM

Where did this recovery CD get DLoaded from ? ?

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: kovette on August 04, 2009, 10:06:50 AM

The recovery file was downloaded from NeoSmart Technologies.

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: Broni on August 04, 2009, 08:59:29 PM

Enter BIOS, and see how many drives are listed there.

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: kovette on August 05, 2009, 05:50:22 AM

I don't know about BIOS.  The recovery disk gives me a look at the drive structure.  It shows a C drive which was my E drive and a X drive which I think was the old D drive.  Using this feature let me copy and save all on the old E drive.  I can get to the ommand level.  Is it possble to reidentify the now C drive back to its original E drive and maybe that will unover the old C drive?  I don't think the old C drive is dead brcause I can still see the old D which is now labeled X drive.

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: patio on August 05, 2009, 07:05:12 AM

How was this setup prior to this ? ?
Be specific.

A crash should NOT jumble drive assignments....what have you done so far ? ?

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: kovette on August 05, 2009, 11:58:13 AM

The computer was as sold by HP with a 300g C drive with a small partician as drive D and a secondary 300 g drive as drive E.  I had made no modifications from s delivered.  I am going to disonnect the seonary drive and see what happens.

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: patio on August 05, 2009, 05:13:27 PM

Quote

Be specific.

Title: Re: HP m9000 crashed,used recovery disk, found secondary drive relabeled as c: Help!
Post by: kovette on August 06, 2009, 03:19:54 PM

I disconnected the old C drive and nothing changed.  I still had what looked like the old partition with the boot info labeled X drive.  I then disconnected the secondary drive and the only drive found was the x drive.  Reonnected all and back to crashed state.