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More info?)
On Tue, 13 Sep 2005 01:40:04 +0000 (UTC), "Steve" <tentenmusic@yahoo.co.uk>
wrote:
>Hmm... Yeah.. thats what my instincts are telling me aswell.
>
>Its just that I'm recycling an old HD as my main ones full (and I'm skint).
>Being active means that I can only use 30 gig of a 40 gig drive as I cant
>delete a lot of old system files and stuff from it.
But why you think so? The "Active" flag means no more that you CAN boot from
this drive -- but only if some other conditions are holding true.
And you can delete ALL from this secondary drive, or format it (the "Active"
flag won't be reset while formatting though) with no problems, as if this flag
is not present.
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Mikhail Zhilin
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> Thanks for the advice
>tho'... I'll certainly take heed unless someone comes up with another way
>round it
>
>
>"NotMe" <cargod01@hotmail.com> wrote in message
>news:%231B1CCAuFHA.3792@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>> Unless it is trying to boot from that disk/partition, I wouldn't mess with
>> it.
>> --
>> A Professional Amateur...If anyone knew it all, none of would be here!
>>
>> "Steve" <tentenmusic@yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message
>> news:dg56ps$nvl$1@nwrdmz03.dmz.ncs.ea.ibs-infra.bt.com...
>>> Just installed a second hardrive (secondhand) and its previously had an
>>> OS installed on its first partition. In Computer Management its showing
>>> up as an active partition which means I cant format it or delete the old
>>> OS. (Am I right in thinking that only the C: partition on Disk 1 needs to
>>> be active?). How can I change Disk 2 to make it inactive?
>>
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