The Active flag should have remained on System Reserved partition which is created to house the boot files for Win7.
The partition containing the boot files is the one which needs to be Active, otherwise they must be written to the partition to which the Active flag is moved.
The C: partition showing as System and Boot, is a normal indication of the boot files being there. I suppose looking to see if the Hidden System file, bootmgr, is in the partition might tell for sure. The bootmgr being in HardDriveVolume3 seems to be OK, but I get those volume settings confused.
But Gregrocker, has there ever been a situation where the Startup Repair was using the DVD as part of its repair. I was wondering what might happen if the DVD was removed at an appropriate time just before the Startup Repair was run. I know -- way out thereOh well, the BCD store doesn't seem to indicate it is looking anywhere beside C:
Something fouled out the boot on C, could be a boot code conflict with the boot files remaining on SysReserved when the Active flag was moved.
Sometimes in such a case you can construct an Active NTFS Primary SysReserved partition to write the boot files upon which will start it when C won't repair.
In this case the SysReserved was waiting with boot files intact, in need of it's Active flag which had clearly been moved.
No, you marked it Active.
I agree, just wondered why the Windows DVD was required in order to boot.
And I looked it up and HarddiskVolume3 is the 3rd partition, which agrees with your assessment.
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