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You shouldn`t have to mark C active as you already have a system reserved partition on that hard drive.
I ask again, do you have a Windows 7 disc or a startup repair disc ?
Vistaking told you exactly what to do in his 1st reply.
Mark F inactive, unplug disk 1 and 2 then boot the machine. It should boot to windows, if it doesn`t, run startup repair.
System Repair Disc - Create
You could do this
. Click
2. In search box, type cmd
3. Right-click on cmd.exe, and choose 'Run as Administrator'
In the elevated command prompt type in the following commands:-
Diskpart
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the HDD in question)
LIST PARTITION
SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the Partition that holds F )
INACTIVE
IF you want to move the bootmgr to C:\ try this
Click on type in CMD then right click on CMD and click on run as administrator click on yes on the UAC window
reg unload HKLM\BCD00000000
robocopy x:\ c:\ bootmgr
x:\ is the letter that you assigned to system reserved partition
robocopy x:\Boot C:\Boot /s
dir c:\ /ah
( this just to check to see If the files got copied over to the C:\ drive )
bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:
bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /set {memdiag} device partition=C:
I`ve never used a usb drive to run startup repair, never had to, but I would think it would work just the same.
If you have a blank cd, you should make a system ( startup ) repair disc. ( for the future )
System Repair Disc - Create
Windows would not boot.
You have a system reserved partition marked active already, if you unplug F, windows SHOULD boot.
Who knows and Yes.
If you didn`t have the other drives plugged in when you installed windows, you would not have this problem.