post a screenshot of disk management window

Did you check in disk management to see if the partitions exist and if a drive letter can be added?

You could try the free version of recuva and I think puran still does a free data recovery program.

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yes

Is this a wind up?

the bcd entry points at the disk and the partition. So the bootmanager on the os disk can boot something from a different disk.




I dont know what you are asking. What do...

and you need to create the boot critical files on the esp and the bcd entry to boot the .vhdx.

The lazy way is create an esp partition on the disk with the .vhdx, then just copy the contents of...

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I just looked at the first post. You have a mechanical disk ? All this time I assumed it was an ssd.

if you do that the disk containing the vhdx will need an esp partition with the relevant boot critical files.

you havent supplied a diskmgmt screenshot. But if the other disk doesnt have an esp,...

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I also said the usual setup is to have a separate esp (system ) partition.

So formatting the os partition ( which you keep calling C ) does not affect the separate system partition.

Have a...

The boot menu entries will be the same as before allowing you to select the now non existent os, or the vhdx.

obviously selecting the os boot menu entry will take you nowhere useful, but selecting...

If the boot critical files are on an intact esp partition, you should still get the boot menu.

does it tell you the unused spare nand blocks ?

if you have copied off everything important you could secure erase/sanitize it.





the manufacturer probabaly provides software to do it.

It is on the system partition. Usually there is a small Efi System Partition (ESP which is typically 100mb ) separate from the os partition.

It is bcdbootdiskv24 now. Can your os/winpe run pecmd scripts or do you need an executable ?

os letter needs to be set after applying the image and before the setup phase.

If using windows...

Bios or efi firmware depending which descripton you prefer should find \EFI\MICROSOFT\BOOT\BOOTMGFW.EFI

bootmgfw will read the entries in the bcd store and display the windows boot menu

Usually...

dont know unless you upload the aomei boot media



curious, can you take a screenshot of the message ?

Couple of ways to do it.

Upgrade win7 Home to pro first ( it is quick and easy ) any win7 pro key entered into anytime upgrade does the job of upgrading the edition.

If you want to activate...

Not sure if he wants to set his choice of os letter or if he means something else.

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No. It shows disk numbers. Disks do not have letters. Perhaps the unfortunate use of the word "drive" can be confusing.

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it can be typed

list disk
or
lis dis

If you are not giving it away a simple quick format will suffice

in the wim file but instead of \fr-fr\ use your own language

I think by default it backs up used sectors only. There is probably an option somewhere if anybody wants to back up all sectors.

Is this any use? By default it appears to have only loaded drivers ticked

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doubledriver is also quite handy seems to suggest the similar drivers as drvindex above

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