Access entire C drive from X source boot? [closed]
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?
Solution 1:
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
orWINDOWS
orWIN8
etc. and often have the volume capacity (another easy bit of information to identify yourC:\
). - 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 theX:\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 yourC:
typedir
and press Enter and you should see yourUsers
folder which you can enter into (cd Users
) anddir
again to see your user account.