How to make a drive active

[Smiley]

Hi,

I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move everything
into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I would
activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore on
a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot find
anywher which I would activate the partition.

It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system
cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which
originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change
the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive.

Any idea ?

MTIA

Smiley

 

[JS]

Doesn't your image backup software have the ability to make the partition
you are restoring to the Active partition?

JS

 

[Andy]

Hi,

I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move everything
into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I would
activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore on
a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot find
anywher which I would activate the partition.

Disk Management can do it.

 

[Smiley]

No. It doesn't. Just retore the image.

Doesn't your image backup software have the ability to make the partition
you are restoring to the Active partition?

JS

 

[Smiley]

Hi Andy,

No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

If this is an IDE disk then you can boot the machine with
a Win98 boot disk (www.bootdisk.com), then run fdisk.exe
in order to mark the partition as active. This process works
even if some of your partitions use NTFS.

 

[Andy]

That means that the primary partition is already active.

 

[Smiley]

Hi Adny,

NO. It is not. If it is I should be able to boot up from that drive but at
present, I cannot boot up from the new drive.

When I removed the original drive, for bizzard reason it cannot even see the
new drive.

Had also alter the setting in the bios, trying to boot up from the new drive
but it just not doing it.

I have tried to bootup from a win98 boot disk but doesn't boot up either.