And as a follow on, it gets more complicated :-)
I didn't pick it up earlier, but the repair utility in the boot disk
did find i had an operating system, but it is now on drive :E????
ie C: is now listed as "system reserved" ( but i cant detect a size )
and :E is where windows is now reported as being.
( I have a secondary backup HDD that is mapped to colon D )
Going into command prompt mode allows me to see that all the data is there, but now i need to know how to turn it back into what it should be.
I can manually get to diskmgmt.msc but cant run it
Anyone hit this before ( ie simple solution )
Andrew
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