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More info?)
Unplug it?
On Tue, 26 Jul 2005 22:30:36 -0400, "M.Siler" <email address not
provided> wrote:
>I'm not admitting to setting it active ;-) but if some how it was set
>active how to unset it... or deactivate it?
>
>"Richard Urban [MVP]" <richardurbanREMOVETHIS@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:OpohaokkFHA.576@tk2msftngp13.phx.gbl...
>> Do not set the drive as active. Not necessary or recommended. You can not
>> boot Windows XP from an external drive anyway. You "may" be able to
>> install and boot Win98 from the drive, but I wouldn't even bet on that.
>> (-:
>>
>> --
>> Regards,
>>
>> Richard Urban
>> Microsoft MVP Windows Shell/User
>>
>> Quote from: George Ankner
>> "If you knew as much as you thought you know,
>> You would realize that you don't know what you thought you knew!"
>>
>> "M.Siler" <email address not provided> wrote in message
>> news:Oh$fvikkFHA.2180@TK2MSFTNGP15.phx.gbl...
>>>I have a new External Firewire drive. It has been formated NTFS. In the
>>>Disk Managment should it be set Active? I've read that the boot partition
>>>must be set Active but this isn't a boot partition.
>>>
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