Active Partition

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Warning! Do not mark a partition as active if it does not contain the loader
for an operating system. Doing so will cause your computer to stop working.

Problem is that I have already done it, is the harddisk useless now?
What should I have to do to recover it?
I did it in order to install the second OS on the harddisk, but it didn't
see any harddisk to be install, now I can not go back to the C partition!
 
iamneo said:
Warning! Do not mark a partition as active if it does not contain the loader
for an operating system. Doing so will cause your computer to stop working.
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Well, yes. That's what "Active" means: bootable. And there can be
only one. It's been this way for many, many years.
Problem is that I have already done it, is the harddisk useless now?
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No, of course not.

What should I have to do to recover it?
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Boot the computer from another disk and remove the "Active" label from
the incorrect partition, and put it where it belongs.




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Boot the computer from another disk and remove the "Active" label from
the incorrect partition, and put it where it belongs.
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Please, what do you mean "Boot from another disk"?
My PC run on Windows Vista has only one disk with two partitions C and D,
because of some problems, I decided to change the D partition to "active" in
order to install another OS from a CD disk on the D partiton. After loading
the files from the CD for the installation is finished, it came up with
notification that there no hard is found!
Normally I can change the "C" to ACTIVE again through the Diskette Drive,
but nowaday there is no Diskette Drive on the new PC.
What should I have to do fix that, Thanks
XXX IAMNEO
 
Iamneo said:
Please, what do you mean "Boot from another disk"?
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Floppy drive, CD, etc. Anything other than the internal hard drive.




--

Bruce Chambers

Help us help you:


http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot
 
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