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ramimLFC

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I use a 120 GB Intel 535 SSD as a boot drive and a Western Digital 500 GB Blue drive for storage.

My SSD contains the OS (Windows 7 Ultimate x64) and has only 1 partition but the storage drive has multiple partitions.

I was fiddling around with the disk manager when I mistakenly marked one of the partitions of the WD drive as "active".

I didn't realise it at first but the next time I wanted to boot my computer I couldn't as the monitor kept showing an "Out of range" message which it usually shows when the input signal exceeds the specified resolution of the monitor.

I tried disconnecting each of those two drives individually and booting using a Windows 7 disk. But it won't work.

Please help, I desperately need to fix it. Thanks.
 
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nyterage
okay, when does the out of range error message appear? is it at the time you press the power button, or when windows boots up? if it is when windows boots, try pressing f8 while the computer is booting (press it repeatedly until windows boot options pop up) if you're able to get to that, select last known good configuration. if that fails, repeat the last few steps but instead of last good configuration select safe mode. once in safe mode revert the settings you changed when the issue started happening and reboot.
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if you have a video card installed, attempt to boot off the integrated graphics on the motherboard, if your motherboard has it. if not try swapping the video card for a spare, if you have one. if neither works, attempt a CMOS reset by using either the CMOS jumper or removing the CMOS battery for a minute while the computer is unplugged.
 
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ramimLFC

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I do not have a graphics card. I run it off of the native GPU inside my core i5 4570. I did try resetting my UEFI settings. That didn't work either.

Although if I remove both the drives I can boot into the windows 7 disk. But there's not much that I can do from there unless a drive is connected.

 
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okay, when does the out of range error message appear? is it at the time you press the power button, or when windows boots up? if it is when windows boots, try pressing f8 while the computer is booting (press it repeatedly until windows boot options pop up) if you're able to get to that, select last known good configuration. if that fails, repeat the last few steps but instead of last good configuration select safe mode. once in safe mode revert the settings you changed when the issue started happening and reboot.
 
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ramimLFC

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Thank you nyterage. I was able to fix the problem by borrowing another hard drive from my friend and booting into the OS from that drive. And then I went back into the Disk manager and activated the correct partition. :)
 
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