Making a Partition/Drive Active?

[Jason]

I have 2 hard disks. An old 20Gb one that's going, and a new 40Gb. I have
a dual boot of 98SE(fat32) and XP (NTFS) and a data partition (fat32) - 3
totally currently running on the old disk. Now I have copied my XP and 98
partitions onto the new disk using Partition Magic Pro's "copy partition" -
directly -disk to disk. All the data is there on both partitions. Please
advise how to start using this disk now i.e how to boot from my new HD and
make necessary changes. I have fdisk.

Thank you.

 

[scott]

assuming that you have the necessary boot files on your
new HD you need to get into the BIOS setup, you can
usually get there with F2 or the delete key upon booting
up, you should see a msg "hit (keystroke) for setup" and
you need to change the Boot sequence, it's probably set to
something like A:, C: CDROM.. if your new HD is the D:
drive replace the C: with D:

 

[Dave - Freedonia]

There may be other ways but I would suggest taking your computer case
off and chagning the Master and Slave drive around.

 

[Alex Nichol]

I have 2 hard disks. An old 20Gb one that's going, and a new 40Gb. I have
a dual boot of 98SE(fat32) and XP (NTFS) and a data partition (fat32) - 3
totally currently running on the old disk. Now I have copied my XP and 98
partitions onto the new disk using Partition Magic Pro's "copy partition" -
directly -disk to disk. All the data is there on both partitions. Please
advise how to start using this disk now i.e how to boot from my new HD and
make necessary changes.

You need to use FDISK (other ways are possible, but that is easy)

Have the drive as master, so it will be booted when booting from HD,
then boot the floppy with FDISK and use first
FDISK /MBR
to write the code to the first sector, then run FDISK and use its option
to set the relevant partition as Active