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HDD's & Active Partitions
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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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Barbara wrote: 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? No 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. You will not be able to boot from drive 1 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? 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. I have no idea how my secondary drive got set to active. I installed it as a secondary device right out of the box. With many utilities if you partition a drive the first primary partition will be active by default. Thanks for any help, Babs -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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