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What are you trying to do here? I assume marking the partition as active is not your end goal; perhaps we can get to the root of the matter without worrying about a System label.
Partition - Mark as Active
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New #21
I am trying to install sp1 on a win7 home premium machine. The system partition should be active for updating, but since I could not do that yet, I do not know if that would resolve my sp1 update problem. See thread here:
7 SP1 Update problem, automount
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THANK YOU GREGROCKER!!!
Greg, I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for having this link! What a life saver! My son's Dell Inspiron M5110 crashed and we could not get it to do anything but f12 and f2. I had the Official Dell Disk set, but even when reinstalling Windows 7, I would get "Missing Operating System" on restart! I was going crazy. I work on the laptop for hours on my own, then 5 hours with different Dell support to no avail! I did what you said above, the first time I got a command control screen on restart, whoops, wrong partition. I got back in using the windows disk, did what you said again but partitioned a different number. Walla! Bells and whistles, I got it to reinstall windows from scratch! My God's Blessing be upon you! Thank You!
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Need help. Minitool partition wizard is not working. I get the option to select it after rebooting with a flash stick, but then when I select it, I get this message
error:/boot/bz/image3 has invalid signature
error: you need to load the kernel first
press any key to continue.
I need to active the mbr as I deactivated not knowing what I was doing, now the cpu will not start, end of story. PUtting a 2nd hard drive in will not work either since windows will not recognize the 2nd drive.
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New #25
AHA...!!! Please correct me if i'me wrong on this hypothesis! I'me having issues with my dual os boot system when i unplug one of the os-drives. One has Win2k and the other is Win7. I wish to remove / unplug / wipe the Win2k BUT when i do this i get ‘Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key’. This STILL happens after i used the Win7 repair disk & command prompt & bootrec.exe /rebuildbcd /fixmbr /fixboot . This STILL happens after i wiped the Boot Manager menu & took Win2k off the boot list by using EasyBCD. Now, after this when I yank the Win2k drive i get the error 'Reboot and select yada yada' so, i looked in Disk Management and saw Win2k (System, Active, Primary Partition) and Win7 (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition), so IS the "Active" causing the Win7 drive with "No-Active" to cause the ‘Reboot and select proper boot device or insert boot media in selected boot device and press a key’?
Thanks for any brainy replys, it's appreciated. ;}
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New #26
yes. Your win 7 disk needs an active partition and the boot critical files need to be on there.
If you remove the win2k disk first, then run startup repair from booted media (it might take 2 or 3 runs) that should do the job
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Ok, i did prior attempt to repair the Win7 with the retail CD, and after 3 tries it still was finding "something" (sorry, i'me a LOT MORE explicit and observant than that) so no joy there, but i WILL attempt the auto-repair again from the retail cd for a few tries once i set / mark the drive as "active" (YES, i DO understand only 1 partition can me marked AND needs to be basic NTSF and Simple (?))
The boot "files" (shown in the Disk Management window (with all the other drives) are on the Win7 drive so that's good, although i still can't understand "why" it was'nt set Active by / when i installed Win7. I'll give you the prognosis over the weekend, thank you thank you.
OH, almost forgot, i'll yank the Win2k after i put the Active on the Win7, and then boot from the CD.
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