Marked wrong drive as active need help

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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.
 

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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.
 

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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:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html?ltr=S
Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html
When Windows is booting OK, Reconnect the other secondary HD, as Disk1.


If you have not made your Startup Repair
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html
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.
 

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ME/XP/Vista/Win7
The problem with that is that I have no cd. is there like a bootdisk that I can download and put on a cd?
 

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Windows 7 64bit
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.
Click to expand...


Do the first part than post back.
 

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ME/XP/Vista/Win7
I removed the other drive and every timeit starts it still says bootmgr missing
 

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OS
Windows 7 64bit
Ill see what they have. On deployment so makes it harder to find things...lol
 

My Computer

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Windows 7 64bit
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
 

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OS
Windows 7 64bit
theog said:
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:
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html?ltr=S
Note: You may need to do startup repair 3 to 4 times.
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html
When Windows is booting OK, Reconnect the other secondary HD, as Disk1.


If you have not made your Startup Repair
http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/2083-system-repair-disc-create.html
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.
Click to expand...
First part of above.
 

My Computer

OS
ME/XP/Vista/Win7
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