disk management

Can someone tell me if this looks right with the boot drive C being disk 3
thxs

It would be better to swap C to Disk0 so any future Startup Repair won't derail the System Boot files to a preceding partition which is accidentally marked Active. Remember to set it first to boot if you do.

Either way you need to mark H Inactive - only the System drive should be marked Active: Partition - Mark as Inactive - Windows 7 Forums

thanks for the reply Gregrocker Ive marked the h drive inactive how do i go about changing the boot drive to disk 0 thanks again for your help
john......................

If you don't mind me butting in, you need to open your box and swap the leads from the hard drives 0 and 2 on the SATA ports on your motherboard.

That is, the lead now on port 2 wants to go on port 0 and the lead on port 0 wants to go on port 2.

cheers for that do that now

changed the data leads and got a start up error "boot disk failure insert system disk and press enter" put them back for now

Change the leads back again, and then run startup repair three times with a reboot between each occurrence.

Startup Repair - Run 3 Separate Times

You didn't follow all of the instructions to also make sure Win7 HD is set first HD to boot in BIOS setup:

gregrocker said:

It would be better to swap C to Disk0 so any future Startup Repair won't derail the System Boot files to a preceding partition which is accidentally marked Active. Remember to set it first to boot if you do.

What Greg said. Just switching the SATA cables around does do it. After you do that you have to go into the BIOS setup and set Disk 0 as the Boot drive.

just had a look in the bios cant find anywhere to set disk 0 as the boot drive the choices are only hard drive,cdrom