Setting Partition as Active. Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Hi all, I have a system that dual boots Windows XP Home (master hard drive) and Windows XP Pro (slave drive). I removed the master drive to put it into...

hidden FAT16 and it has the partition type flag of 222 decimal, or 0xDE. The Dell diagnostics will only run automatically via the F10 key if they are present on a suitably set up partition. Yes, if you have a CD with diagnostics that came with your system,...

took out Quantum and connect Maxtor to the end connector and set as master, On the power and it does its usual text (as above) and when I press F1, (will also give the bios data) it was able to read "A" and after partiton (single,primary and make 'active')...

to clone a disk it took care of setting the partition active and the replacements always booted up just fine. Thanks, - Chris LeFebvre Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support () Fdisk is NOT in the Recovery Console set of commands....

the Logical is for the OS, so my thinking is that I want > to choose "Primary". Do I? :o} Your primary partition is what your active partition where you install your OS, or boot partition. You then create an extended partition with the rest of...

in CentOS. I've been able to back up my files *after* the boot problems each time. Anyone have any ideas? I appreciate the help. - Kert have you tried just booting from the dell xp disc and deleting the partition and then make the new partition,...

interposing a new partition between the present OS (win98) partition, C: and the present application partition, D: No problem setting up the partition, using Partition Magic - the problem arises in shifting all the registry references from 'D:' on to...

to logical drives. This is your 3rd Partition so use 100% 12. If you will be booting from this disk, choose option 2 from the FDISK menu and enter 1 to make the primary DOS partition ACTIVE. Yes make Primary partition active 13. Press the ESC key to exit...

wrote in message news:BSchwarz.1r97cz@no-mx.gateway.localhost... >> You need to set the partition to active with disk manager. Nope. Setting a partition active tells the hard drive's MBR to point at this hard drive's boot files from the partition boot...

files to the > smaller partition. Boot with a 98 disk login on > to the 98 partition and install. This way if 98 corrupts you can reinstall > it from the second partition. That's a good idea if the hard drive is big enough to make it practical. Works...