How to make HD inactive

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HI,

I have XP Pro and my system is..

2 Disks C/E (C is active primary with XP) - D/F slave

DVD Burner + CD Burner

I have just got a Raid Controller sdo I can add another driver or 2 not
as Raid, but just as extra HD's.

I have the new HD on the card as a master and it is fine, I can see and
access all the file/dirs that I have on it which I will delete in a
format. It is an old Master drive which is set as 'Active'.

I want to make it inactive so I can refornat it NTFS using XP.

I get the message in XP when I try to format it that it is active and
blah blah..

Is there a way in XP to make it inactive before I format it?

Thanks
 
HI,

I have XP Pro and my system is..

2 Disks C/E (C is active primary with XP) - D/F slave

DVD Burner + CD Burner

I have just got a Raid Controller sdo I can add another driver or 2 not
as Raid, but just as extra HD's.
Click to expand...

Not sure what you mean.
You have the non-raid controller 2 HDs on it and 2 Atapi drives ( DVD
and CD burner) ?

And you have an EXTRA RAID controller too?
All the ones Ive seen the Raid controller can act as just a plain
old IDE controller too so you can add 4 more devices. But as I posted
before - the ATAPI stuff should probably be kept on first controller.
I have the new HD on the card as a master and it is fine, I can see and
access all the file/dirs that I have on it which I will delete in a
format. It is an old Master drive which is set as 'Active'.

I want to make it inactive so I can refornat it NTFS using XP.

I get the message in XP when I try to format it that it is active and
blah blah..
Click to expand...

Not sure whats going on there too. If you try to format within WIN XP
it wont let you format the partition WIN XP is on.

You can boot up with the WINXP CD and format and destroy and create
partitions on any HD then.

Are you using a card controller?

Ive been using the Promise controller that came with my Maxtor 200gig
because I have a regular IDE and a SATA IDE/RAID controller. Since I
dont have SATA disks I cant use it and use the first controller + the
Maxtor to fit my more than 4 devices on to my PC.

However I noticed a really WICKED sound stuttering problem.
It was bad. I moved the sound card sblive I have to other slots.
And then I took it out and used onboard sound. WICKED stuttering.
Horrendous. It was like my PCI bus was hogged by the controlelr card.

I finally took it out and have everything connected to my first
controller. Im thinking of getting SATA to IDE adaptors. Im notsure if
theres a fix to it or if a add on card controller is just too much for
this board , all boards or boards with two controllers on them already
or what. Are 3 controllers on a board asking for two much? Though I
have the SATA diabled. Or is it this board?

Im hoping the built in extra SATA controller works a lot better since
ive used two controller motherboards in the past by Asus and Abit and
never had sound stuttering problems like this.
 
If your hard drive with your OS needs to be formatted, then you need
to boot with the WinXP Install CD and format it.

This will erase everything on the drive.

In WinXP the partitioning programs and the format programs are on the
CDROM.
 
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