System won't boot due to manual drive letter change from C:

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Yes, I know. Don't change C:- well I was in the middle of a complicated mess of of cloning and imaging and for some reason I needed to boot and attempt to repair drive letters from an esata HDD borrowed from my laptop to get my desktop back to running- which it is now. Topic for another time. What I need help with now is that in that process I had to change the laptop's drive letter away from C: and now that I install it back to the laptop and power up I get the bios boot menu w/ F2 setup and F12 boot options, then the windows 10 logo in the middle of the screen with the circle loading at the bottom followed in about ten seconds by a perpetual black screen. I'd really prefer not to have to fresh install from my Win 8 disk and update all the way back up to 10. Any ideas?
Thank you guys and gals for your time and let me know if I can get any info needed for you.
 
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Hi

You need a windows 10 bootable dvd or usb
Must match 64 bit if the hard disk has 64 windows on it.

Boot off this disk and it should recognise windows and offer to repair the windows startup system

Consider data recovery first if critical data exists on this disk

Regards
Mike Barnes
Hi

You need a windows 10 bootable dvd or usb
Must match 64 bit if the hard disk has 64 windows on it.

Boot off this disk and it should recognise windows and offer to repair the windows startup system

Consider data recovery first if critical data exists on this disk

Regards
Mike Barnes
 
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