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  1. Uber Philf
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       New #21

    whs said:
    LOL, why don't you take a break and make a walk thru the park. That will calm your nerves.
    Way too hot for a walk, but a nice cold shower will do the trick. :)
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  3. whs
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    You are lucky. I wish it was hot. I am in Florida and it is currently 40F (5C). We'll have to move south.
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  4. gregrocker
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    This happens frequently with a data drive on DISK0 which gets marked Active, causing the Win7 installer to place MBR there since it looks for first Active partition.

    The solution here is to boot the Win7 DVD Repair console or Repair CD, click through to Recovery tools list to open a Command Line, type:

    DISKPART
    LIST DISK
    SELECT DISK 0 (confirm it contains D drive)
    LIST PARTITION
    SELECT PARTITION # (for D partition)
    INACTIVE
    SELECT DISK 1 (confirm it contains Win7)
    LIST PARTITION
    SELECT PARTITION # (for Win7 partition)
    ACTIVE
    EXIT

    Now return to Recovery Tools list to run Startup Repair up to 3 separate times with reboots as it will attempt to fix and finally write MBR to Win7.
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  6. whs
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    Greg, I wish you had been around earlier. I have to can your solutions in case you are absent. Now UberPhilf went the reinstall route.
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  7. Uber Philf
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       New #25

    Haha i didn't, once i figured id pulled the wrong HDD out, i just ran startup repair ( on the RIGHT drive mind you )
    and it repaired itself

    While your here Greg, is there a way i can make the D Drive inactive, while in windows?
    Through the CMD or something?

    EDIT: Followed the Steps above, in CMD, and worked as expected.

    Thanks very much all for your help.
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  8. gregrocker
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    Please bring these issues into Installation and Setup in the future as I hardly ever make it out of there.

    Glad to help anytime a Philf...
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