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Setting active partition
Can you only have one active partition per drive (boot sequence dependant on
BIOS settings) or one per PC? I have RAID 0 copied onto a new 80 Gb drive that I want to test to make sure it boots OK. If I set the active partition on the 80Gb drive as active, will it take active 'off' the RAID? Or can I swap between the RAID and the IDE each having an active partition, the actual boot drive being dependent on the sequence I set? Did I make that too confusing?? -- Susan |
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"S.Boardman" wrote: Can you only have one active partition per drive (boot sequence dependant on BIOS settings) or one per PC? You can have one active partition per drive. A hardware RAID array will appear to the system BIOS as a single drive. I have RAID 0 copied onto a new 80 Gb drive that I want to test to make sure it boots OK. If I set the active partition on the 80Gb drive as active, will it take active 'off' the RAID? Or can I swap between the RAID and the IDE each having an active partition, the actual boot drive being dependent on the sequence I set? You can't use a partition as both an independent logical drive and part of a RAID drive. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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