Barbara
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 12:20 am Post subject:
HDD's & Active Partitions |
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Hello,
I have a clone running XP Pro.
I have two physical IDE hard drives in it.
Both drives contain just one partition each utilizing 100% of each hard
drive's space.
Drive C: [drive 0, partition 1], is NTFS, it is set active.
Drive D: [drive 1, partition 1], is FAT32, it is also set active.
Question: Can both partitions being set active cause any problems?
I recently used a partitioning management program to set drive 1 partition 1
[drive D:] as not active.
I'm hoping I didn't do something stupid.
Question: Also, without such a HDD management software, is there a quick and
easy way to set a partition as active/not active - especially "not" active
since a simple FDISK can mark a partition as active?
I have no idea how my secondary drive got set to active. I installed it as a
secondary device right out of the box.
Thanks for any help,
Babs |
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Mike Walsh
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Wed Dec 15, 2004 3:18 am Post subject:
Re: HDD's & Active Partitions |
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Barbara wrote:
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Hello,
I have a clone running XP Pro.
I have two physical IDE hard drives in it.
Both drives contain just one partition each utilizing 100% of each hard
drive's space.
Drive C: [drive 0, partition 1], is NTFS, it is set active.
Drive D: [drive 1, partition 1], is FAT32, it is also set active.
Question: Can both partitions being set active cause any problems?
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No
| Quote: | I recently used a partitioning management program to set drive 1 partition 1
[drive D:] as not active.
I'm hoping I didn't do something stupid.
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You will not be able to boot from drive 1
| Quote: | Question: Also, without such a HDD management software, is there a quick and
easy way to set a partition as active/not active - especially "not" active
since a simple FDISK can mark a partition as active?
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It is easy to set a partition as active. It is much more difficult to set all partitions inactive with a Microsoft OS. If you set another partition as active all other partitions on the drive will be set as inactive because only one partition on a physical drive can be active.
| Quote: | I have no idea how my secondary drive got set to active. I installed it as a
secondary device right out of the box.
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With many utilities if you partition a drive the first primary partition will be active by default.
| Quote: | Thanks for any help,
Babs
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Mike Walsh
West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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