Umm.. I just re-installed windows on an unallocated partition just to see everything was fine.
Then I restarted my PC and booted to the WIN DVD. A repair was suggested. I accepted the repair and both my OS'es were recovered.
So.. all fine now.
What I meant earlier is that I didn't do any actions in minitools.
I burned the minitools bootable cd and booted into it. No actions were done inside the software.
Just a simple boot.
After it booted to minitools I restarted my PC because I realized I forgot to backup something.
And... that's pretty much it.. After the restart I couldn't boot into either of my drives..
Well I certainly don't know why you suddenly couldn't re-boot from either of your two drives using the identical approach you probably had been successfully using previously, just because you had booted to the Partition Wizard CD and then exited the program... which would of course do nothing at all to your partitions. So this should not have impacted whatever hard drive boot capability you previously had.
Anyway, it sounds like you have now repaired things (using the third installed Windows), but still have the first Windows on drive #1 not positioned where you want it. Is there now a boot manager menu that lists THREE bootable versions of Windows??
Are you going to slide the original Windows on drive #1 left as you described your original goal when starting this thread, using Partition Wizard? Note that you can do this while booted to either of the other two Windows and using the installed Partition Wizard in either of those two Windows systems. You don't have to use the standalone boot CD to accomplish this slide-left of the first Windows on drive #1. You only should use the standalone boot CD to make changes to the Windows partition itself you are running from, and which can't be done while running under that Windows itself. But when you're running from a second or third Windows partition, you can now do maintenance on a currently unused Windows partition while running in the second or third Windows system itself.
I'm not trying to confuse things, but I'd still like to see a screenshot of your two hard drives as shown either by Partition Wizard or DISKMGMT.MSC. If you use DISKMGMT.MSC, please expand to full-screen and spread the column dividers in the upper pane so that we can read all the English text in the cells.
I'm still wanting to see WHICH partition is marked "active", and what's in each of your partitions... as viewed from whichever of your now THREE versions of Windows you must be running from.