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09-04-2004, 09:42 AM
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lost drive letter
I have a Dell Inspiron 8100 laptop and after upgrading my cdrw/dvd combo
drive firmware my computer will go to the Win XP Pro boot screen and then give a blue error message screen stating that a hardware or software error has occured and recommends booting into safe mode. When trying to re-boot into safe mode or any mode It never will boot up completely. I put in a boot disk and ran fdisk an chose display partition information. It shows that the only partition is active but there is no drive letter C assigned to it and when choosing drive c: at the command prompt it says invalid drive specification. Is there any way to reassign a drive letter without losing all the data on the drive. Last edited by johnnyta; 09-04-2004 at 05:27 PM. |
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09-04-2004, 04:18 PM
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fdisk can't see NTFS partitions, which is most likely what you have.
You can try to run a repair by booting up with the CD. If that doesn't work, you can restore the system to the factory default.
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