System Restore shows wrong drive as System Drive.

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Kimberly

System restore is not working. When I go to turn it off,
it tells me that Drive D is the System Drive, when in
fact the operating system is on Drive C. I am thinking
this is why System Restore is not functioning.

Can anyone tell me how to correct this problem?

Feel free to use the Yahoo address to respond. TIA
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Hi, Kimberley.

I've not used System Restore, but some counter-intuitive terminology may be
tripping you up - as it has so many of us. ;>(

As many authors have lamented, we BOOT from the SYSTEM partition and keep
the operating SYSTEM files in the BOOT volume.

In Disk Management, you should see labels on the volumes showing which is
"(Boot)" and which is "(System)" - unless a single volume is both Boot and
System, in which case only the "(Boot)" label is shown.

The files NTLDR, NTDETECT.COM and Boot.ini must be in the "system
partition", which is ALMOST always Drive C:. Whichever volume holds the
"boot folder" (\Windows, by default) is the "boot volume". The boot
partition and boot volume may or may not be the same partition.

If you already knew all this, then nevermind. ;^}

RC
 
Thanks for your timely response R. C.

I knew none of this. Could you be so kind as to tell me
in more or less Redhead language how to go about
correcting this problem.

My C drive, or primary, or drive 0 has 20gigs, and it
carries my operating system. My D, and E drive, or slave
is and 80 gig partitioned to two 40s.

System restore tells me that the first partition of the
slave drive or, drive D, or drive 1 is the system drive,
which of course it is not.

This leaves system restore non-functioning, in fact, one
cannot even disable system restore because a text box
appears and says an error has occurred.

Help me.... ;) TIA
 
Thank you R. C. for your timely response.

I looked at all the files you mentioned, and they all
appear in the root directory of C: Drive.

Can you tell me in language a redhead can understand how
one goes about switching the identity of their C and D
drives so perchance System Restore will once again
function?

Thank you......

K
 
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