Drives are mixed active, boot, and system

Can you post a screenshot of what Disk Management shows for the drives?

Usually, the booting files can be moved to the Windows partition (or recreated using the Windows DVD). Do you have a standard Microsoft Windows DVD?

Is there anything else on Disk 2 besides the booting files? It looks like there is.

I am going to try and do this with the rich text editor.

Disk Management screen shot:

I temp assigned the drive letter m: and deleted everything off the drive except for the hidden system files and directories on that drive.

So what I want to do is have the c: drive the active, boot, system drive and make the raptor the same as the D: Drive healthy but not an actice system drive just data storage.  As I said Microsoft could not help. I have tried everything I can think of to fix it.

Thanks for any help you can give me.

John

Follow the instructions below to move the booting files from M: to C:. Note that if you have changed the drive letter assigned to the Raptor1 partition use the correct letter instead of M:.

1. It's recommended to have a backup image of the drive before making changes (you probably already have one). 
2. Boot into Windows 7.
3. Start an Administrator Command Prompt and run the following commands to fix the BCD file:
   bcdedit /set {current} device partition=C:
   bcdedit /set {current} osdevice partition=C:
   bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:
   bcdedit /set {memdiag} device partition=C:
4. Copy the Windows 7 booting files to the Windows 7 partition by running the following commands:
   reg unload HKLM\BCD00000000
   robocopy   M:\   C:\   bootmgr
   robocopy   M:\Boot   C:\Boot   /s
5. Restart the computer and enter the BIOS. Set the Windows 7 drive as the booting drive. Save the BIOS changes and restart.
6. Windows should boot.
7. Start Disk Management and make sure the Windows 7 partition is showing that it's the System, Boot partition.
8. If everything looks okay, you can do what you want with the Raptor 1 partition/drive.

Thank you very much MudCrab. I am currently creating an up to date backup image now of my C: drive. Then I will do as you have said. One question in the command lines it looks like you also want me to type the {xxxxx} in the commands as well. Another words type exactly what you have written.. correct? Just want to make sure is all.

Thank you,

John

That's correct. You need to type the braces { } when running the bcdedit commands. I also put extra spaces in the robocopy lines so you could see them more easily (if the spaces are missing or incorrectly placed, it won't run correctly).

MudCrap I followed your instructions and here is the results:

...Start an Administrator Command Prompt and run the following commands to fix the BCD file:
Check no problem
...bcdedit /set {current} device partition=C:
Check no problem completed
...bcdedit /set {current} osdevice partition=C:
Check no problem completed
...bcdedit /set {bootmgr} device partition=C:
Check no problem completed
...bcdedit /set {memdiag} device partition=C:
Check no problem completed
...Copy the Windows 7 booting files to the Windows 7 partition by running the following commands:
...reg unload HKLM\BCD00000000
Check no problem completed
...robocopy M:\ C:\ bootmgr
Issues? Here is what the screen returned
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch Failed Extras
Dirs 1 0 1 0 0 0
Files 1 0 1 0 0 0
Bytes 374.7k 0 374.7k 0 0 0
Times 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00

...robocopy M:\Boot C:\Boot /s
Issues? Here is what the screen returned
Total Copied Skipped Mismatch Failed Extras
Dirs 25 0 25 0 0 0
Files 35 5 30 0 0 0
Bytes 13.91m 109.0k 13.81m 0 0 0
Times 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00 0:00:00
Speed: 3488000 Bytes/Second
Speed: 199.584 MegaBytes/Min

...Restart the computer and enter the BIOS. Set the Windows 7 drive as the booting drive. Save the BIOS changes and restart.
Original Boot Order: M:, C:, D:
Changed to C;, D:, m:

...Windows should boot.
Nope here is the error:
Windows could not start because of a computer disk hardware configuration problem.
Could not read from the selected boot disk. Check boot path and disk hardware.
Please check the windows documentation about hardware disk configurations and your hardware reference manuals for additional information.

So I stuck my Disk Director 11 boot disk in and check and the drives looked exactly the same as the screen shot from before So I but the boot order back as before via CMOS and booted back into windows again ... thank goodness. I ran disk director 11 from windows and still looks exactly as before.

What you think MudCrab? must be an issue some how with the robo copy?

John

It could be. Enable viewing of hidden and system files and check if bootmgr and the entire Boot folder match what's on the Raptor1 drive.

I looked at the bootmge and Boot folder and they look the same to me. Date and size. I tried to look at the BCD.LOG as well I could look at the one on c:drive but the one on Raptor 1 was in use. I am really at a loss as to what to do, but it is frustrating.

Thanks MudCrab

Did you verify the contents of the Boot folder? At the very least, it needs to have the BCD file. Normally, it will also have several .log files, BOOTSTAT.DAT, and a bunch of language folders (en-US, fr-FR, etc.).

If that all looks correct, please post the contents of the BCD file on the Windows partition. You can do this by running bcdedit and specifying that file. Open an administrator Command Prompt and run the following command: bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /enum all

You can save the output to a file if you want to: bcdedit /store c:\boot\bcd /enum all > c:\savebcdoutput.txt

I did verify the Boot folder it looked the same on both c: and m: drives. bunch of language folders etc ...
I also ran the command that you wanted here is the output of the BCD file:

Windows Boot Manager
--------------------
identifier {bootmgr}
device partition=C:
description Windows Boot Manager
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
default {default}
resumeobject {17dc2bfc-84f0-11e0-ae34-c17f53c783d9}
displayorder {default}
toolsdisplayorder {memdiag}
timeout 30

Windows Boot Loader
-------------------
identifier {default}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winload.exe
description Windows 7
locale en-US
inherit {bootloadersettings}
osdevice partition=C:
systemroot \Windows
resumeobject {17dc2bfc-84f0-11e0-ae34-c17f53c783d9}
nx OptIn

Resume from Hibernate
---------------------
identifier {17dc2bfc-84f0-11e0-ae34-c17f53c783d9}
device partition=C:
path \Windows\system32\winresume.exe
description Windows Resume Application
locale en-US
inherit {resumeloadersettings}
filedevice partition=C:
filepath \hiberfil.sys
pae Yes
debugoptionenabled No

Windows Memory Tester
---------------------
identifier {memdiag}
device partition=C:
path \boot\memtest.exe
description Windows Memory Diagnostic
locale en-US
inherit {globalsettings}
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Anything else you want me to try?
Think we can get this repaired?
Thanks MudCrab,
John

Double-check that the Windows drive is correctly set as the BIOS booting drive. You may want to disable or disconnect the other drives to make sure. Sometimes other drives can cause problems like this.

You could try running the steps in Post #3 again, starting with Step #4 and see if copying the files again makes any difference.

Otherwise, if you have a Windows 7 DVD or System Repair Disc (you can create one from Windows 7 if you don't have one), make sure the Windows drive is the booting drive and the Raptor1 drive can't be seen (disable/disconnect) and then boot to the DVD and do a boot repair. You may have to run the repair several times (reboot between tries) before it can fix everything.

MudCrab ... Thanks for the additional steps ... I ended up getting very busy and have not had the time to try them yet. I hopefully will very soon and get back to you. Didn't want you to think I was blowing you off. I really appreciate the help that you are providing.

John