Access entire C drive from X source boot?

Question

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?

Answer 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.

1. Boot to your WinRE ("repair mode" as you call it)
2. Type DISKPART and press Enter
3. Type LIST VOL and press Enter
4. 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:\).
5. Make a note of the drive letter assigned by the WinRE environment - it may not be C:
6. Type EXIT and press Enter - The command prompt will return to the X:\Sources> prompt
7. 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.