Cant reformat HDD Any Ideas

It's not. The Boot partition is the partition containing the OS installation not the partition the containing the boot files - blame MS for that naming snafu. The system boots from the system partition, in this case F:

Now normally the boot and system partitions are in the same place but in the OP's case they're not. This is why you should only have one HDD connected when you install Windows, that way you don't get things spread across multiple disks.
 
Sounds like your screwed then, especially if your drive wont read the windows disk

Maybe something like partition magic or similar could help, but my knowledge is now exhausted..
 
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Right ok as my drive chooses not to read my windows disk im thinking of creating a new one when i brought the copy of windows bill gave me the files to download aswell so i have them does anyone now how to burn them so the disk is bootable cus the first time i burnt them to a disc it wouldnt boot from that disc but my drive reads it fine
 
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By 'nuke it' I meant reformat etc

As was mentioned above your F: is marked as Active and System. Active means that this is the drive your BIOS is looking at first for the files to do the handover from BIOS to OS. Those files, the 'system' files, are also on F:. Both of these factors are the reasons you cannot simply re-format the drive from within windows.

Precisely what files do you have that you want to burn to create a new install disc? Is it a single ISO or a collection files with a setup.exe? If the latter you will also need to put boot files on the DVD you burn which is a whole other thing. An ISO would likely include those booting files (similar files to the one on your F: lol) but the other option wouldn't. If that is the case you would need to tell your burning software that you wanted to make the new disc bootable and then supply it with the relevant files to allow it to do that.

This link talks about your scenario of making a bootable Win 7 ISO/Disc from the downloadable files: http://www.mydigitallife.info/2009/...rom-exe-plus-setup1-box-and-setup2-box-files/
 
Thank you all for ya time and help il see what i can do with creating this boot disc and just going format everything then install with only one drive connected lol then il buy a MAC ha ha only joking
 
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