Can booting occur if there are no active partitions?

Boot disk
Bootable CD

peter
"b11_" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can booting occur if there are no active partitions?

USB drives 2. So I'm told.

Just my 2¢ worth. Larry

On Wed, 28 Feb 2007 01:24:49 GMT, "peter" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote:

>Boot disk
>Bootable CD
>
>peter
>"b11_" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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>> Can booting occur if there are no active partitions?
>


Any advise given is my attempt to show appreciation for all
the excellent help I've received here but I'm no MVP so it
may only apply NUGS (Normally, Usually, Generally, Sometimes

b11_ wrote:
> Can booting occur if there are no active partitions?


Not with a Microsoft operating system; can't speak for others.

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"Bruce Chambers" <(E-Mail Removed)3t> wrote in message
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> b11_ wrote:
>> Can booting occur if there are no active partitions?
>
>
> Not with a Microsoft operating system; can't speak for others.
>
True but, if it is the system drive that is active, it doesn't seem to list
'active' in the status column of Drive Management. It just says (System) so
perhaps the OP is confused by that. If the boot files are placed on another
drive and that drive is made 'active' then that is what appears in the
status column, the system drive still showing the same status as before.

brianf