Re: How to mark partition as active

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I have plugged my notebook's hd to my desktop in order to copy some
files. I used to do this with XP with no problems.

However, now, with VISTA, after putting the hardisk back to my laptop
it won't boot! I does not even detect it on the setup. But it is easily
detected using XP cd.

Vista must have changed the system/bootable flag, no?! How can I change
it back? It still says active and primary thought.

Thanks for any help.


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Are you sure it isn't the master/slave jumper issue?
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"klaus2" wrote:
>
> I have plugged my notebook's hd to my desktop in order to copy some
> files. I used to do this with XP with no problems.
>
> However, now, with VISTA, after putting the hardisk back to my laptop
> it won't boot! I does not even detect it on the setup. But it is easily
> detected using XP cd.
>
> Vista must have changed the system/bootable flag, no?! How can I change
> it back? It still says active and primary thought.
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
>
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"klaus2" <klaus2.30p1be@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:klaus2.30p1be@DoNotSpam.com...
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> I have plugged my notebook's hd to my desktop in order to copy some
> files. I used to do this with XP with no problems.
>
> However, now, with VISTA, after putting the hardisk back to my laptop
> it won't boot! I does not even detect it on the setup. But it is easily
> detected using XP cd.

What do you mean? The BIOS "setup" does not detect it? If so, it's most
likely a hardware issue.


> Vista must have changed the system/bootable flag, no?! How can I change
> it back? It still says active and primary thought.

"Active" means the boot flag is already set.
 
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