Bootmgr file located in different hard disk

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.

Thinksloth said:

AddRAM said:

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.

i have a windows 7 installation usb

It works the same way a DVD would . Don't click on Install choose Repair your computer on the bottom left

Who knows and Yes.

If you didn`t have the other drives plugged in when you installed windows, you would not have this problem.