Curiosity - Active Partition Woes

[BH2]

Hi guys,
I know,I should have not messed around with the disk management, but I kind
of did it by accident. What I did was to make two Partitions (separate
drives) Active, and the one with Xp on now not the boot partition. I know,
I know I shouldn't mess, but at least I have learnt something, my computer
would not boot, so what I did was to format one of the drives and install
windows xp on the now D drive. Before I did this I tried to make the C
drive the active partition thru Disk management but it would not let me.
Ok, now you know what a mess I made with my boot drive now D Drive, how do I
clear the mess up and get it back onto C drive. Any advice (other than
don't mess - I won't in future) will be really appreciated.,
Thanks and Regards
Bob

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

Hi guys,
I know,I should have not messed around with the disk management, but I kind
of did it by accident. What I did was to make two Partitions (separate
drives) Active, and the one with Xp on now not the boot partition. I know,
I know I shouldn't mess, but at least I have learnt something, my computer
would not boot, so what I did was to format one of the drives and install
windows xp on the now D drive. Before I did this I tried to make the C
drive the active partition thru Disk management but it would not let me.
Ok, now you know what a mess I made with my boot drive now D Drive, how do I
clear the mess up and get it back onto C drive. Any advice (other than
don't mess - I won't in future) will be really appreciated.,
Thanks and Regards
Bob

Since you installed WinXP on drive D: it must always run
on drive D:, because its registry has hundreds of references
to drive D:.

 

[GHalleck]

Hi guys,
I know,I should have not messed around with the disk management, but I kind
of did it by accident. What I did was to make two Partitions (separate
drives) Active, and the one with Xp on now not the boot partition. I know,
I know I shouldn't mess, but at least I have learnt something, my computer
would not boot, so what I did was to format one of the drives and install
windows xp on the now D drive. Before I did this I tried to make the C
drive the active partition thru Disk management but it would not let me.
Ok, now you know what a mess I made with my boot drive now D Drive, how do I
clear the mess up and get it back onto C drive. Any advice (other than
don't mess - I won't in future) will be really appreciated.,
Thanks and Regards
Bob

Well...one way is to start from scratch by re-installing Windows
XP by booting off the cdrom drive. Delete all existing partitions
and then designate a new partition for Windows XP. It will become
Drive C. If by planning ahead to have 2 partitions, then this is
also the time to do it...just a little bit of simple arithmetic to
size them. And a reminder...remember to make copies of all important
files.

 

[BH2]

Thanks guys appreciated
Regards
Bob

Well...one way is to start from scratch by re-installing Windows
XP by booting off the cdrom drive. Delete all existing partitions
and then designate a new partition for Windows XP. It will become
Drive C. If by planning ahead to have 2 partitions, then this is
also the time to do it...just a little bit of simple arithmetic to
size them. And a reminder...remember to make copies of all important
files.