Windows 10: Windows 10 Boot File Structure When the OS is on D:

This is an ASUS AS BM6820.
It's somehow stuck in booting and neither normal nor safe modes will get to the login screen.
I am wondering if the boot files are all OK because:
In this case the OS drive is D: and there seems to be not much in C: at all.
Here is the result of "bcdedit":
Code: WIN10 C:\WINDOWS\system32>bcdedit Windows Boot Manager -------------------- identifier {bootmgr} device partition=C: description Windows Boot Manager locale en-US inherit {globalsettings} default {default} resumeobject {589169ed-2348-11e7-9e79-a253cda68567} displayorder {default} toolsdisplayorder {memdiag} timeout 30 Windows Boot Loader ------------------- identifier {default} device partition=D: path \WINDOWS\system32\winload.exe description Windows 10 locale en-US inherit {bootloadersettings} recoverysequence {a6c8a76b-2348-11e7-9e79-a253cda68567} displaymessageoverride Recovery recoveryenabled Yes allowedinmemorysettings 0x15000075 osdevice partition=D: systemroot \WINDOWS resumeobject {589169ed-2348-11e7-9e79-a253cda68567} nx OptIn bootmenupolicy Legacy [/quote] What I wonder is if everything that needs to be in the C: drive is actually there? When I look, even with system files visible, I don't see much except C:\TEMP. Is that normal?

What should one see in the C: drive if the D: drive is the OS drive?
What should one see in the D: drive?

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How to back up out of a failed win10 install and return to Win7

Thanks much for the quick response.

The upgrade was initiated through Windows update. Client is in her late 80s

Chkdsk shows no damage to the file structure. the D: drive appears to have all of her files and directories.

When I put the drive in a working win7 computer, the system provides the primary partition with a different (not D drive letter and I can access the files with no problem on either computer.

I think that I should be able to make the partition marked as the D: drive in the old computer as boot able. Backing up any data first of course.

 

Win 10 clean install on existing/added partition

To begin this saga, following is a list of the current configuration of my computer drives:

C:/ TI10697500B (Hard drive -478 GB First Partition)

D:/ ExendedtPartition (458 GB)

E:/ DVD RW drive

F:/ ESD-USB (SDHC card)

F:\autorun.inf autorun.inf

F:\boot boot

F:\bootmgr bootmgr

F:\bootmgr.efi bootmgr.efi

F:\efi efi

F:\MediaMeta.xml MEDIAM~1.XML

F:\setup.exe setup.exe

F:\sources sources

F:\support support

F:\System Volume Information SYSTEM~1

History: Wanted to upgrade my Win 7 computer to Win 10, but keep my existing 7 OS (to have a dual-boot situation) Using Paragon Partition Mgr, created a second partition (call it "D") Then proceeded to download the necessary files to up-grade to Win
10. Here is where I went wrong (thinking that when I up-graded to the 10 OS, I could install it on my "D" partition = WRONG!! Went thru the entire upgrade process only to discover that the install completely replaced the Win 7 OS. Out of panicked ignorance,
not wanting to lose my precious Win 7 OS, proceeded to re-install 7 using recovery disks created when I bought the new computer. So here I am now: (don't remember if, when I had, for a short time, the 10 OS , I activated it. (probably did cause I test-drove
the Win 10 sys for a few hours before recovering Win 7 and over-writing the Win 10 OS. I've gone thru the entire process of downloading the files to clean install Win 10. I now have several files installed at the front of "D", and are as follows:

D:\$RECYCLE.BIN;

D:\JIMKEIL-PC;

D:\MediaID.bin;

D:\msdia80.dll;

D:\Recovery;

D:\System Volume Information;

D:\WindowsImageBackup

These files were installed by executing the set-up file on the card (Drive "F") to which was DL'ed the Win 10 install files.

Where do I go from here--I know there has to be a "Boot" situation in this equation; then where and how to execute the Win 10 set-up; and where are those files?

I'm hopelessly stuck! Thanks to anybody who will take the timeto read this and respond!!

 

It would be more helpful to post a screenshot of your Disk Management run. Then it can be determined if the sizes of the partitions correspond to a correct installation and where the boot partition is.

 

??? Disk Management is part of Windows.