Hard drive configuration help please...

If it's any help, the boot menu lists

Older OS
Windows 7 (which I know is the new SSD) - defaulting to
Windows 7

How many OS's do you wont?

Easeus Partition Master can supposedly change logical to primary:

EASEUS Partition Master 7.5.1 Beta/ Partition Master 7.1.1

Another possibility is to clone the logical to another drive and then restore it as a primary partition.

theog said:

How many OS's do you wont?

Just one. Windows 7.

As I said, lets ignore the SSD setup, which I'll remove for now anyway and worry about another day.

Incidentally I had the same setup on my laptop.

Win XP
Partitioned
Installed Win 7
Copy boot.mgr and boot folder to Win 7
Reboot and repair with Win7 disk
diskpart delete xp partition
diskpart Win7 partition active
bootrec /fixmbr

And worked straight away. Can't fathom why it's not working here too.

Lets not ignore the SSD drive, as this is the best drive for the OS.

You can not boot to a Logical drive.

So what do you recommend?

If you don't want to put the OS on the SSD, your options are limited due to the logical drive issue.

My only suggestions are Easeus or cloning as mentioned above.

ignatzatsonic said:

If you don't want to put the OS on the SSD, your options are limited due to the logical drive issue.

My only suggestions are Easeus or cloning as mentioned above.

Cheers mate. Just confused as to why this worked fine on my laptop and now the same process isn't working on my home desktop.

Laptop is Pro 32bit and Desktop Home 64bit.

1) Unplug the cable from Disk2 & plug in to SSD drive.Make sure BIOS boot order is SSD first HD boot.
2) Unplug all other cable from HD's.
3) Install OS to SSD.

Have a read of those tutorial:
SSD - Install and Transfer the Operating System
SSD Tweaks and Optimizations in Windows 7
SSD / HDD : Optimize for Windows Reinstallation
User Profile - Change Default Location
User Folders - Change Default Location

When you are up & running, replace the HD's one at a time, sort out the DATA if need.

When you get to the drive with the old OS's on, save your data, than you can delete the partitions.
Partition or Volume - Delete
Partition or Volume - Create New