disk management

[baccini]

Can someone tell me if this looks right with the boot drive C being disk 3
thxs

 

[gregrocker]

It would be better to swap C to Disk0 so any future Startup Repair won't derail the System Boot files to a preceding partition which is accidentally marked Active. Remember to set it first to boot if you do.

Either way you need to mark H Inactive - only the System drive should be marked Active: Partition - Mark as Inactive - Windows 7 Forums

 

[baccini]

thanks for the reply Gregrocker Ive marked the h drive inactive how do i go about changing the boot drive to disk 0 thanks again for your help
john......................

 

[seavixen32]

If you don't mind me butting in, you need to open your box and swap the leads from the hard drives 0 and 2 on the SATA ports on your motherboard.

That is, the lead now on port 2 wants to go on port 0 and the lead on port 0 wants to go on port 2.

 

[baccini]

cheers for that do that now

 

[baccini]

changed the data leads and got a start up error "boot disk failure insert system disk and press enter" put them back for now

 

[seavixen32]

Change the leads back again, and then run startup repair three times with a reboot between each occurrence.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/105541-startup-repair-run-3-separate-times.html

 

[gregrocker]

You didn't follow all of the instructions to also make sure Win7 HD is set first HD to boot in BIOS setup:

It would be better to swap C to Disk0 so any future Startup Repair won't derail the System Boot files to a preceding partition which is accidentally marked Active. Remember to set it first to boot if you do.

 

[edwar]

What Greg said. Just switching the SATA cables around does do it. After you do that you have to go into the BIOS setup and set Disk 0 as the Boot drive.

 

[baccini]

just had a look in the bios cant find anywhere to set disk 0 as the boot drive the choices are only hard drive,cdrom

 

[whs]

I know you guys are often concerned when the boot disk is not on part0. But actually it does not really make any difference for normal operations - except for a reinstall. But who reinstalls systems these days. You go back to an image instead.

And if you really reinstall (e.g. from a clean .iso), just disconnect the lower port disks or install into a predefined active primary partition - or even easier, move the bootmgr afterwards if it went astray. Avoids gymnastics, LOL.

 

[gregrocker]

About half of users with multiple HD's who post up screenshots have a data partition marked Active.

OP is one of these users as one can see from screenshot.

When that partition precedes the Win7 partition it will claim the System Boot Files during Startup Repair, which writes them to the first Active partition in order.

 

[whs]

Right Greg. I would just move the bootmgr to C:. Is that not a valid option ??

 

[gregrocker]

I'd leave his Win7 HD alone as it's set up correctly and running ok.

The BIOS likely has a way to set Win7 HD first to boot, under HD's if not boot order.

But he marked H Inactive so there's little worry if he doesn't want to swap Disks 0 and 2 - as long as no other preceding partitions get wrongly marked Active.

 

[AddRAM]

just had a look in the bios cant find anywhere to set disk 0 as the boot drive the choices are only hard drive,cdrom

You would actually be looking for boot disk priority which is usually right under boot device sequence.

 

[baccini]

ok got the bios sorted to boot in the correct order. Ive attached three Thumbnails of the disc managment with one two and three drives connected
thanks for all the help
john.......................

 

[gregrocker]

You can plug G and H into Disk 1 and 2 respectively.

Be sure Win7 HD remains set as first HD to boot.

If you need help with settings in the BIOS, ask back. Look under HD's if not in Boot Order.

 

[baccini]

Ok thanks, i found a list of the drives in the bios and moved the boot drive to the top and set the boot order to hard drive then cdrom all seems to ok now
cheers john.............