My problem is when I try to boot making the HDD the primary booting device I get corruption problems. So I need to keep my installation DVD in the rom at all times, actually for some reason I can't even get the disk to eject from it and I've tried a paper clip. This quote seems to sum up what I think is the root of the problem here but I need help configuring this "When you let Windows 7 create the partition, it will actually create 2 partitions; the first is only 100 MB and contains the boot files, and is identified as System Reserved, and shows (System, Active, Primary Partition) The second would become the C: drive and shows (Boot, Crash Dump, Page File, Primary Partition)" In my case I have 2 HDDs; 1 SATA, 1 IDE and 3 partitions, the 3rd being the 100MB one. I see my D: Drive is set to system and not my 100MB active primary partition, how would I change this? Also my D: Drive is set as Active but my C: with Windows 7 on it isn't?

Temporarily unplug the drive you do not want the O/S on, also unplug any other USB devices like readers..........

"My problem is when I try to boot making the HDD the primary booting device I get corruption problems." I think you need to find the reason for that before you go any farther. As for the C and D how are you saying that? In reference to a dual boot or what. As far as I know it would be unlikely that system is D. MS has this thing about calling C the system drive no matter what order it is in machine order. Don't play with the 100 partition at all. (well, there are ways to delete it but see articles and I think you have to reload) Playing to the angels Les Paul (1915-2009)

Alright so I got it to boot w/o the DVD in the drive I had to set the HDD to IDE I still can't get it to open or close the DVD Rom though I only have 1 OS on my C: Drive Checked my Disk Management D: is no longer labeled with System, It is under System Reserved.. Still no System or Active for my C: though I tested the DVD Rom in my old desktop and it works fine in that system.