Windows 7 on 2 system partitions

hi,

I just reinstalled Win7 64x yesterday and was surprised that disk management shows 2 system partitions.

C is boot with win7, D is a primary partition on the same drive, F is a 500gb partition that is also a system partition.

Windows wont boot without both C and F

Is there anyway to make C the only system partition and make windows start up from it only without having to reinstall everything?

I also noticed D isnt recognized when trying to reinstall windows without F present so I would have to wipe C and D (the whole drive) and start over which I would really like to avoid.

Mark the F: partition INACTIVE.
Partition - Mark as Inactive

Will Windows still work though?

I tried it and doesnt work, got a BOOTMGR missing. I didnt mistakenly make a partition active anyway...

Any other ideas?

Mark F Inactive, assure C is still marked Actve, reboot into BIOS setup to set Win7 HD first HD to boot, after DVD drive.

From booted Win7 DVD or Repair CD - System Repair Disk run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times until Win7 again starts and C is marked System Active.

The repair function like the installer itself should write the system boot files to the first active partition, so something caused it to skip C during install (which always marks Active) and write the boot files to F. Did you perchance install to F? You should have a Dual Boot menu if so.

If it interferes again, unplug F while you do these repairs.

First time it repaired and restarted but second time it doesnt want to repair.. "System repair cannnot repair this computer automatically"

This is the report if its useful at all:
Repair: Partition table repair.
Result: Failed, error code = 0x490

It just repaired by setting F active again.

Whats really bothering me is disk with F is now the first disk or "disk 0" in management, it always does this and is probably the real cause of the problem but I dont know why it does it???

AddRAM said:

Simply run the startup repair AS GREG SUGGESTED, until windows boots again. It looks like you now have 2 installs of 7. 1 on C and 1 on F. Is that what you meant to do ?

I installed only once on C, I never touched other partitions...

Please mark C Active, unplug F drive, run Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times with reboots, no matter what it reports.

Make sure C drive is set first HD to boot in BIOS setup, after DVD drive.

Once C starts, plug F back in but assure C stays set first HD to boot.