Access entire C drive from X source boot?

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I would like to be able to access the entire C drive as my title says from booting in x source cmd whilst in repair mode, is this possible?

What have you tried exactly? It should be as simple as chaning the working directory to the drive letter assigned to the system partition, it might not be C, you should give us more information to work with. — Ramhound, Aug 25 '16 at 15:49

Kinnectus · Answer 1 · 2020-05-14T13:18:52.693

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Booting to WinRE will give you the tools to access your entire C:\ but you need to determine what drive letter WinRE has given to your C:\ for the session you have booted to. To achieve this you use DISKPART.

Boot to your WinRE ("repair mode" as you call it)
Type DISKPART and press Enter
Type LIST VOL and press Enter
You will need to identify which is your system drive letter - this is often easily identifiable as they are often titled SYSTEM or WINDOWS or WIN8 etc. and often have the volume capacity (another easy bit of information to identify your C:\).
Make a note of the drive letter assigned by the WinRE environment - it may not be C:
Type EXIT and press Enter - The command prompt will return to the X:\Sources> prompt
Type your noted C: (exclude any trailing \) and press Enter - it should change the working directory to the drive letter. To verify it is your C: type dir and press Enter and you should see your Users folder which you can enter into (cd Users) and dir again to see your user account.

edited May 14 '20 at 13:18

answered Aug 25 '16 at 15:58

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Thanks for the response, so I have made it into diskpart, listed 3 volumes c, e and f. I exit going back to x source run cd: \e but the next line returns x source again. – ManWithNoName Aug 25 '16 at 16:15
Your syntax is incorrect. Chris indicates the correct syntax to use. – Ramhound Aug 25 '16 at 16:17
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You need to type: `e:` then press `Enter` – Kinnectus Aug 25 '16 at 16:26
Yeah sorry that was a typo. I have ended up using pushd command to get to the drive unfortunately ordinary cd didn't want to work – ManWithNoName Aug 25 '16 at 16:36
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That's because you don't use `cd` to change drive letters :) – Kinnectus Aug 25 '16 at 16:39
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You only need to type E: (no cd, or anything, just E:) – var firstName Aug 25 '16 at 16:41
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Mark this as an answer if it solved your problem, @ManWithNoName. – var firstName Aug 25 '16 at 16:42
Good answer, could you stress that one needs to type just `C:` without the backslash `\\` @Kinnectus? I suppose many readers might overlook this (me included). – escalator May 12 '20 at 14:12
Updated step 7, which I believe is where the confusion is. – Kinnectus May 14 '20 at 13:20

Access entire C drive from X source boot?

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