Let's see: You were told to make sure no other drives were marked Active but C so you mark G Active and leave F Active.

What is unclear about this?

gregrocker said:
In addition to Rich's important suggestion to check that the IDE is set first HD to boot in BIOS setup, in Disk Mgmt your IDE drive should be marked System Active and be the only HD marked Active.
Now please complete the steps given correctly and report back results.