Re: How to mark partition as active

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Thanks for all the help guys, getting desperate here. Thanks Bill
Blanton.

When I boot up it hangs for some seconds and then says the classic "no
disk".

Hard Disk is the original, nothing changed, used to work fine. I
removed it, used it on a USB-IDE box on my NEW Vista desktop and puff,
never booted anylonger. I used to do this on XP with no problems.

Vista had problems accessing the mydocuments folder and I had to ser
permissions to access all files.

I know there's that issue, that when you have two bootable windows
disks one is flagged as the most important and then the other does not
boot anymore?!

One thing I find strange: THE LED from the disk now it's always on! On
the USB-ide box AND on the portable! ?!? Could it mean anything?

Also, could this be a bad cluster on the boot? Wouldn't BOOTCFG
/REBUILD have been given me a warn if that was the case?


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"klaus2" <klaus2.30sfjc@DoNotSpam.com> wrote in message news:klaus2.30sfjc@DoNotSpam.com...
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> Thanks for all the help guys, getting desperate here. Thanks Bill
> Blanton.
>
> When I boot up it hangs for some seconds and then says the classic "no
> disk".

That's probably a BIOS message. The BIOS can't load the first sector, or
the ending sector signature is missing. Fixboot should have taken care
of the latter.


> Hard Disk is the original, nothing changed, used to work fine. I
> removed it, used it on a USB-IDE box on my NEW Vista desktop and puff,
> never booted anylonger. I used to do this on XP with no problems.

I don't think Vista has anything to do with it. You didn't convert it, did you?
Or let something like Goback take it into its config?


> Vista had problems accessing the mydocuments folder and I had to ser
> permissions to access all files.
>
> I know there's that issue, that when you have two bootable windows
> disks one is flagged as the most important and then the other does not
> boot anymore?!

The BIOS controls which loads. Is the disk set as the boot disk in the BIOS?
Also check that it is reporting the correct disk size.


> One thing I find strange: THE LED from the disk now it's always on! On
> the USB-ide box AND on the portable! ?!? Could it mean anything?

Could be hung up trying to read.


> Also, could this be a bad cluster on the boot? Wouldn't BOOTCFG
> /REBUILD have been given me a warn if that was the case?


It doesn't sound like you're getting to the point where clusters have any
meaning. Check that the jumper is properly seated. Take a close look at
the pins in the socket. Look for bent/damaged pins. Reseat the plug.
 
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