Marked wrong drive as active need help

So I did something really stupid and believe when I was looking around that I marked both drives as active and it moved my secondary drive to the front in the space as disk 0 and moved the windows drive to disk 1 and thanks it is supposed to boot from the wrong drive. I have no windows 7 recovery disk at hand. So when it tries to boot it says something along the lines of can't find BOOTMGR.

What do I need to do to get my system up and running, and how do I unmark the drive as active? Please I appreciate any help.

You can mark a partition as inactive using the diskpart command.

If you can't boot, you should be able to access diskpart using your Windows installation disc. You just need to get to a command prompt to run it.

Physically disconnect the secondary HD.
Make the Windows 7 HD, disk0 & first HD boot in BIOS.Also connected to the first Sata port on the MOBO.

You may need to do a startup repair:
Startup Repair
Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times
When Windows is booting OK, Reconnect the other secondary HD, as Disk1.


If you have not made your Startup Repair
System Repair Disc - Create
Do you have a mate with Windows 7 of the same bit version 32 or 64 & CD/DVD RW Drive, how could burn one off.

The problem with that is that I have no cd. is there like a bootdisk that I can download and put on a cd?

Physically disconnect the secondary HD.
Make the Windows 7 HD, disk0 & first HD boot in BIOS.Also connected to the first Sata port on the MOBO.

Do the first part than post back.

I removed the other drive and every timeit starts it still says bootmgr missing

If you have not made your Startup Repair
System Repair Disc - Create
Do you have a mate with Windows 7 of the same bit version 32 or 64 & CD/DVD RW Drive, how could burn one off.

Ill see what they have. On deployment so makes it harder to find things...lol

What do you mean by deployment?
Windows 8.
If yes, take a look at:
http://www.eightforums.com/tutorials...ndows-8-a.html

I am military and on deployment.

I got the system up and running, and did a system restore. The secondary is still in the spot as disk 0 and marked as active. How do I get it moved back to disk 1 and marked inactive