Active Partition

[Bobbi]

OS: XP Professional
3 IDE harddrives
2 IDE CD/DVD R/RW
My built-in controllers are full. I added a 3rd IDE controller to
accomodate more harddrives. The harddrive I installed was one I removed
from another machine that had XP on it. I extracted the data I needed and,
when I went to format the drive so I can use it as an extended volume, I
noticed it was set as 'active'. I am not able to set my original c:\ drive
as active. It is grayed out. I deleted the new disk partition and formatted
it from within the Disk Administrator. I'm not sure what will happen now
when I reboot my computer. Disk Administrator shows the following:
Disk 0 Basic = New 80G HDD on 3rd IDE Controller (assigned drive letter x:\)
Disk 1 Basic = Old 80G HDD on Primary IDE controller on Motherboard(c:\,
d:\, e:\, f:\)
Disk 2 Dynamic = Old 40G HDD on Primary IDE controller (assigned drive
letter z:|)
Disks 3-6 Removable Media Kanguru drive (k:\, l:\, m:\, n:\)
CD-ROM 0 on Seconday IDE controller on Motherboard (drive g:\)
CD-ROM 1 on Seconday IDE controller on Motherboard (drive h:\)

I have modified boot.ini to:
[boot loader]
timeout=3
default=multi(1)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS
[operating systems]
multi(1)disk(0)rdisk(0)partition(1)\WINDOWS="Microsoft Windows XP
Professional" /fastdetect /NoExecute=OptIn

Is this what I should have done? I still have no 'Active' partition. I
also created a MS-Dos boot floppy and put fdisk on it in case I need it. I
think I probably will. I guess I just need some re-assurance before I
reboot this and have a monster on my hands.

Any advice appreciated.
Thanks,
Bobbi

 

[Rich Barry]

Bobbi, go ahead with your plan to use fdisk to set the Active Partition.