Windows System Repair Doesn't Work with My USB3 Drive!

Motherboard: DELL Inc., 0X501H

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What's the model name and model number of your Dell?
What's the exact 7-character service tag number on it?

Hard Drives: B: 1533 GB (1163 GB Free); C: 320 GB (147 GB Free); F: 468 GB (59 GB Free); G: 462 GB (278 GB Free); H: 2794 GB (1244 GB Free); Q: 4657 GB (386 GB Free); R: 9 GB (8 GB Free);

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Can you clarify what the B: and C: and F: and G: and H: and Q: and R: drives are?
How many internal and external hard drives are connected to your Dell?
What are their capacities, and are any of them divided into multiple partitions?

I'm assuming the C: drive contains the Windows 7 operating system.
I'm assuming the Q: drive contains your system images.

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flavallee said:

What's the model name and model number of your Dell?
What's the exact 7-character service tag number on it?

Can you clarify what the B: and C: and F: and G: and H: and Q: and R: drives are?
How many internal and external hard drives are connected to your Dell?
What are their capacities, and are any of them divided into multiple partitions?

I'm assuming the C: drive contains the Windows 7 operating system.
I'm assuming the Q: drive contains your system images.

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Hi, flavallee! My computer is a Dell XPS9000. Service Tag 9WMMML1.

I have 2 internal Drives and 3 external drives. My B: Drive is a partition of my C: Drive (which is my operating drive). F: and G: are partitions of the secondary internal drive. H: and Q: are single-partition external Drives. (Q: is the one with my System Images -- WindowsImageBackups -- on it). I have two MUCH older System Images on H: -- and the System Repair Disk does recognize them. There's also on on G: Drive, which is recognized) They're over a year old, though. It never occurred to me that the Images I was making to Q: weren't going to be recognized! I've put several images on Q: in the last few months. I thought I was safe!

ALL my drives (other than C: and R ) simply contain data: pictures, videos, music, docs, etc.

C: 320GB (Operating System)
B: 1.5 TB
F: 468GB
G: 462GB
H: 3TB
Q: 5TB
R: (Recovery) 9GB (This Recovery Drive has long ago stopped containing anything useful. Recovery never recognizes it. But Windows won't let me get rid of it. It says "8.72GB free of 9.12GB".)

Peg

According to that service tag number, you has THIS Dell XPS 435T/9000 desktop.
According to its original configuration section, it shipped in January 2010 in the U.S.A. and came with Windows 7 Professional 64-bit.
It also came with a single 1 TB(931 GB) internal hard drive.
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If I understand you and I'm guessing correctly:
C: and B: are 2 partitions of a 2 TB(1862 GB) internal hard drive which was later added and which Windows 7 Professional 64-bit was reinstalled in the smaller C: partition.
F: and G: are 2 partitions of the original 1 TB(931 GB) internal hard drive which came in that desktop.
H: is an unpartitioned 3 TB(2793 GB) external hard drive.
Q: is an unpartitioned 5 TB(4655 GB) external hard drive - which contains your system images.
If there's a 3rd external hard drive, your listed drive letters don't account for it.

I have no experience with external hard drives or system images or system repair discs, so I can't comment on their use.
If Windows 7 were to "crash and burn", I would do a clean reinstall and start out fresh.
https://forums.techguy.org/threads/steps-for-installing-updating-windows-7-sp1.1176121/

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