How do I make a drive non-bootable?

[whitesmith]

I was running out of available space on my hard drive so I bought
another (larger) one and installed it in my system along with the old
one. My plan was to put XP on the new drive and remove it from the old
one later on. This is evidently more complicated than I imagined
because I can't find a way to change the status of the old drive from
primary (bootable) to logical (non-boot) in PartitionMagic or Easeus
Partition Manager.

I don't need two bootable drives in the same box. I'd be thankful to
anyone who can explain what needs doing to eliminate the boot feature
on the old drive.

 

[db]

your cmos/bios settings
will allow you to designate
which drive you want the
pc to boot from.


I was running out of available space on my hard drive so I bought
another (larger) one and installed it in my system along with the old
one. My plan was to put XP on the new drive and remove it from the old
one later on. This is evidently more complicated than I imagined
because I can't find a way to change the status of the old drive from
primary (bootable) to logical (non-boot) in PartitionMagic or Easeus
Partition Manager.

I don't need two bootable drives in the same box. I'd be thankful to
anyone who can explain what needs doing to eliminate the boot feature
on the old drive.

 

[Pegasus \(MVP\)]

I was running out of available space on my hard drive so I bought
another (larger) one and installed it in my system along with the old
one. My plan was to put XP on the new drive and remove it from the old
one later on. This is evidently more complicated than I imagined
because I can't find a way to change the status of the old drive from
primary (bootable) to logical (non-boot) in PartitionMagic or Easeus
Partition Manager.

I don't need two bootable drives in the same box. I'd be thankful to
anyone who can explain what needs doing to eliminate the boot feature
on the old drive.

The usual method to clone a disk goes like this:
- Connect both disks: One as a master, the other as a slave.
- Boot the machine with your PQMagic Rescue disk.
- Copy the old to the new disk.
- Mark the system partition on the new disk as "active".
- Remove the old disk.
- Make the new disk the primary master.
- Boot the machine with the new disk.

If you cannot find the spot in PQMagic to mark the new
system partition active, check the PQMagic FAQs.