disable 'active' status on a hard drive

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how do you disable the 'active' status of a hard drive? i
need to access it and i am unable to

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Hah?

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Try booting with a DOS boot floppy nad then run FDISK. One of the options is
for activating the boot drive.

"alan" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> how do you disable the 'active' status of a hard drive? i
> need to access it and i am unable to

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