Hi kemical: you said
Probably your easiest route if you want to get the data back is buy a new drive for C and then access the old C drive at a later date to grab the wanted data.
I was thinking that as well, hence why my thoughts about having two identical SSD that would allow me to have a mirror system back up system for the future.
As suggested by
<<<BBJ>>> in post #135 (I have looked at this before) Are you also saying that a professional like yourelf if sitting beside my PC could recover the faulty "C" drive? what are the chances of this in realality? (or % wise).
I would appreciate if you can help me with the following questions. I don’t understand two points of this exercise, how/why has the “C” drive now become the “E” drive.
Also how has it become locked? Is it not possible to change it? Using any
run commands?
What about the Boot list, would changing that help, or any of the other settings in the BIOS.
As I can still access the disc in safe mode and whilst for a limited time (5 to 15 min) using the RUN options it seems to give me longer times, I have run several of the basic ones, and all I have tried seem to work. (I can’t remember many of them these days).
Would you like me to end this Thread, much of it possibly not going to help anyone with the sames problems due to the number of directions this has tanken us over the last 165 postings.
Thanks to you and the others, suggestions always welcome.