Win7 fails to boot

C is a second hard drive I put in for all my photos, so they wouldn't be on my main drive.
I was going to remove it to simplify things, but wasn't sure.
So If what I understand from what I've seen and read, the boot partition is missing ?That would be the 100mb partition?

Bsmooth said:

C is a second hard drive I put in for all my photos, so they wouldn't be on my main drive.
I was going to remove it to simplify things, but wasn't sure.
So If what I understand from what I've seen and read, the boot partition is missing ?That would be the 100mb partition?

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diskpart
sel  vol  c
inactive

Remove that second drive during testing! Run startup repair again 3x. Post results

I think your computer in recovery environment did try to fix the partition on the other physical drive! so it tried to fix what was called C in recovery environment! That's why the active partition on the other drive was called D.

That other drive has now files like bootmgr and the boot menu (\boot\bcd) I assume. It was fixing the wrong drive!

Solution: force boot from the correct physical drive in BIOS settings. Swap both connections on the motherboard. For example connect drive1 to sata2 and drive2 to sata1 instead of the opossite.

It is a very strange problem. You told me the partition called on the other drive was NOT marked ACTIVE.

Bsmooth said:

OK took my extra hard drive out and rrebooted using my recovery disc. Right away it said theres something wrong with windows. I then used the startup repair and after one boot I'm up and running.
I thought your supposed to run startup repair 3 times. Now If windows is running , how do I run startup repair 2 more times ?

To run it 3 times ... you shouldn't have booted to normal mode at all. Just boot 3 times from recovery DVD.

But 3 times is not needed at all in most occasions. Win7 can boot succesfully now. But is F8 menu (safe mode, repair your computer) working? Option "repair your computer" is visible and working in that F8 menu.