• Which Partition Should Be Marked As Active

That makes sense. I guess that active '100mb Healthy (System, Active, Primary Partition)' is the one that needs to be active. I was worried it would be the C drive (Healthy, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition) was the one that needed to be active. I guess I will give it a shot. Feb 06, 2014  you have it right the small system should be active one as you show it in your pic just wondering how come its the second partition though. It should have been the first one with the main being the second. Copy order wrong? I don't know if you would be able to expand your primary partititon to fill up the rest of the space the way it is.

Which Partition Should Be Marked As Active

Normally it's the Recovery partition, but is it also marked System now? This confirms it is booting Win7. If not run the Startup Repairs to see if it will start.If you can't get it to boot correctly that way then move the Active flag to C and run 3 separate Startup Repairs again to see if it will move the System boot files to C and start.It's possible Recovery failed or is stuck in a loop, so you can also try running it again from the Recovery partition using the Dell F11 key. Otherwise you'll be better off doing the Clean Reisntall I wrote about earlier as it is a much better install. Similar help and support threadsThreadForumI started O&O partition manager and accidentally pressed active on partition C and now I cannot boot windows.I am using build 7600 x86 I loaded up the windows 7 iso on a usb memory and booted from it and chose repair, it said it found things to repair, i pressed ok, it rebooted but it did not.General DiscussionShould i mark it as active?Hardware & DevicesOkay first of all, I don't know if this is the correct section.I marked the wrong partition as active in Windows 7, the problem is that I do not have access to a Windows 7 DVD to use diskpart. And I don't have access to any other computer at the moment.