Active Drive

[Mike]

I was formatting a partition on my second hard drive. I
accidentally made the partition active. When I selected C:
and right clicked on it, the selection to make it active
was light grey. I searched Microsoft's web site and did
not come up with much. I did not want to reboot knowing
that my computer might not boot up. I then created a win98
boot disk with fdisk on it to possibly change the active
partition (work with NT once). I also created a boot disk.
When I rebooted it was fine. I went back in to the disk
management tools and noticed that none of the partitions
were marked as active. C: was showing as system. The
selection was still grey to make C: my active partition.
BTW, I am running XP Professional on an Athlon XP1700.

Thanks, Mike

 

[Sharon F]

I was formatting a partition on my second hard drive. I
accidentally made the partition active. When I selected C:
and right clicked on it, the selection to make it active
was light grey. I searched Microsoft's web site and did
not come up with much. I did not want to reboot knowing
that my computer might not boot up. I then created a win98
boot disk with fdisk on it to possibly change the active
partition (work with NT once). I also created a boot disk.
When I rebooted it was fine. I went back in to the disk
management tools and noticed that none of the partitions
were marked as active. C: was showing as system. The
selection was still grey to make C: my active partition.
BTW, I am running XP Professional on an Athlon XP1700.

Thanks, Mike

The "make active" choice for C: is unavailable because it is already
applied to that partition.

It is possible to have more than one active partition so that is not a
problem either. Not running that way at the moment but I have marked the
first partition of the second drive as active in the past and XP handled it
just fine.

 

[Mike]

Thanks for you advice.

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