How to make a drive active

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Smiley

Hi,

I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move everything
into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I would
activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore on
a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot find
anywher which I would activate the partition.

It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.

Any idea ?

MTIA

Smiley
 
Doesn't your image backup software have the ability to make the partition
you are restoring to the Active partition?

JS

"Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:f6u2re$8q8$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi,
>
> I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move
> everything into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere
> which I would activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the
> image restore on a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G
> but still cannot find anywher which I would activate the partition.
>
> It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
> cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
> originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
> the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.
>
> Any idea ?
>
> MTIA
>
> Smiley
>
 
On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley"
<firework123@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Hi,
>
>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move everything
>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I would
>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore on
>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot find
>anywher which I would activate the partition.

Disk Management can do it.

>
>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.
>
>Any idea ?
>
>MTIA
>
>Smiley
>
 
No. It doesn't. Just retore the image.

"JS" <@> wrote in message news:ukqr5MmwHHA.4140@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl...
> Doesn't your image backup software have the ability to make the partition
> you are restoring to the Active partition?
>
> JS
>
> "Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote in message
> news:f6u2re$8q8$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk...
>> Hi,
>>
>> I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move
>> everything into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere
>> which I would activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the
>> image restore on a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G
>> but still cannot find anywher which I would activate the partition.
>>
>> It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
>> cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
>> originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
>> the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.
>>
>> Any idea ?
>>
>> MTIA
>>
>> Smiley
>>
>
>
 
Hi Andy,

No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out.


"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com...
> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley"
> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi,
>>
>>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move
>>everything
>>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I
>>would
>>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore
>>on
>>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot
>>find
>>anywher which I would activate the partition.
>
> Disk Management can do it.
>
>>
>>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
>>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
>>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
>>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.
>>
>>Any idea ?
>>
>>MTIA
>>
>>Smiley
>>
 
If this is an IDE disk then you can boot the machine with
a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com), then run fdisk.exe
in order to mark the partition as active. This process works
even if some of your partitions use NTFS.


"Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote in message
news:f6veb8$6nt$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk...
> Hi Andy,
>
> No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out.
>
>
> "Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
> news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley"
>> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move
>>>everything
>>>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I
>>>would
>>>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore
>>>on
>>>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot
>>>find
>>>anywher which I would activate the partition.
>>
>> Disk Management can do it.
>>
>>>
>>>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
>>>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
>>>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
>>>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.
>>>
>>>Any idea ?
>>>
>>>MTIA
>>>
>>>Smiley
>>>
>
>
 
That means that the primary partition is already active.

On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:38 +0100, "Smiley"
<firework123@googlemail.com> wrote:

>Hi Andy,
>
>No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out.
>
>
>"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
>news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com...
>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley"
>> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>
>>>Hi,
>>>
>>>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move
>>>everything
>>>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I
>>>would
>>>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore
>>>on
>>>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot
>>>find
>>>anywher which I would activate the partition.
>>
>> Disk Management can do it.
>>
>>>
>>>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
>>>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
>>>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
>>>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.
>>>
>>>Any idea ?
>>>
>>>MTIA
>>>
>>>Smiley
>>>
>
 
Hi Adny,

NO. It is not. If it is I should be able to boot up from that drive but at
present, I cannot boot up from the new drive.

When I removed the original drive, for bizzard reason it cannot even see the
new drive.

Had also alter the setting in the bios, trying to boot up from the new drive
but it just not doing it.

I have tried to bootup from a win98 boot disk but doesn't boot up either.



"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
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> That means that the primary partition is already active.
>
> On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:38 +0100, "Smiley"
> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote:
>
>>Hi Andy,
>>
>>No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out.
>>
>>
>>"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message
>>news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com...
>>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley"
>>> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>
>>>>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move
>>>>everything
>>>>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I
>>>>would
>>>>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image
>>>>restore
>>>>on
>>>>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot
>>>>find
>>>>anywher which I would activate the partition.
>>>
>>> Disk Management can do it.
>>>
>>>>
>>>>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
>>>>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
>>>>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I
>>>>change
>>>>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.
>>>>
>>>>Any idea ?
>>>>
>>>>MTIA
>>>>
>>>>Smiley
>>>>
>>
 

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