Guest Smiley Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Hi, I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move everything into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I would activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore on a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot find anywher which I would activate the partition. It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. Any idea ? MTIA Smiley
Guest JS Posted July 9, 2007 Posted July 9, 2007 Re: How to make a drive active Doesn't your image backup software have the ability to make the partition you are restoring to the Active partition? JS "Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:f6u2re$8q8$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk... > Hi, > > I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move > everything into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere > which I would activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the > image restore on a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G > but still cannot find anywher which I would activate the partition. > > It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system > cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which > originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change > the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. > > Any idea ? > > MTIA > > Smiley >
Guest Andy Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: How to make a drive active On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote: >Hi, > >I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move everything >into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I would >activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore on >a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot find >anywher which I would activate the partition. Disk Management can do it. > >It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system >cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which >originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change >the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. > >Any idea ? > >MTIA > >Smiley >
Guest Smiley Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: How to make a drive active No. It doesn't. Just retore the image. "JS" <@> wrote in message news:ukqr5MmwHHA.4140@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > Doesn't your image backup software have the ability to make the partition > you are restoring to the Active partition? > > JS > > "Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote in message > news:f6u2re$8q8$1$830fa17d@news.demon.co.uk... >> Hi, >> >> I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move >> everything into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere >> which I would activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the >> image restore on a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G >> but still cannot find anywher which I would activate the partition. >> >> It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system >> cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which >> originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change >> the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. >> >> Any idea ? >> >> MTIA >> >> Smiley >> > >
Guest Smiley Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: How to make a drive active Hi Andy, No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out. "Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com... > On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley" > <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote: > >>Hi, >> >>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move >>everything >>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I >>would >>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore >>on >>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot >>find >>anywher which I would activate the partition. > > Disk Management can do it. > >> >>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system >>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which >>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change >>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. >> >>Any idea ? >> >>MTIA >> >>Smiley >>
Guest Pegasus \(MVP\) Posted July 10, 2007 Posted July 10, 2007 Re: How to make a drive active If this is an IDE disk then you can boot the machine with a Win98 boot disk (http://www.bootdisk.com), then run fdisk.exe in order to mark the partition as active. This process works even if some of your partitions use NTFS. "Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote in message news:f6veb8$6nt$1$8300dec7@news.demon.co.uk... > Hi Andy, > > No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out. > > > "Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message > news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com... >> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley" >> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move >>>everything >>>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I >>>would >>>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore >>>on >>>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot >>>find >>>anywher which I would activate the partition. >> >> Disk Management can do it. >> >>> >>>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system >>>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which >>>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change >>>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. >>> >>>Any idea ? >>> >>>MTIA >>> >>>Smiley >>> > >
Guest Andy Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: How to make a drive active That means that the primary partition is already active. On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:38 +0100, "Smiley" <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote: >Hi Andy, > >No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out. > > >"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message >news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com... >> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley" >> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >>>Hi, >>> >>>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move >>>everything >>>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I >>>would >>>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image restore >>>on >>>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot >>>find >>>anywher which I would activate the partition. >> >> Disk Management can do it. >> >>> >>>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system >>>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which >>>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I change >>>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. >>> >>>Any idea ? >>> >>>MTIA >>> >>>Smiley >>> >
Guest Smiley Posted July 11, 2007 Posted July 11, 2007 Re: How to make a drive active Hi Adny, NO. It is not. If it is I should be able to boot up from that drive but at present, I cannot boot up from the new drive. When I removed the original drive, for bizzard reason it cannot even see the new drive. Had also alter the setting in the bios, trying to boot up from the new drive but it just not doing it. I have tried to bootup from a win98 boot disk but doesn't boot up either. "Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message news:4em893pq6p640apqg5effm95tc34h5cuuu@4ax.com... > That means that the primary partition is already active. > > On Tue, 10 Jul 2007 09:00:38 +0100, "Smiley" > <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote: > >>Hi Andy, >> >>No. Disk management doesn't do it. The option was grey out. >> >> >>"Andy" <1@2.3> wrote in message >>news:1ip593tjte5uc0s1msbv8nebp5iuckbq03@4ax.com... >>> On Mon, 9 Jul 2007 20:37:57 +0100, "Smiley" >>> <firework123@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>>>Hi, >>>> >>>>I am on Windows XP but the original drive was full (40G) so move >>>>everything >>>>into a new drive which is 250G. However, cannot find anywhere which I >>>>would >>>>activate the partition as a boot partition. I have done the image >>>>restore >>>>on >>>>a partition of 200G then scrapped it and set it to 40G but still cannot >>>>find >>>>anywher which I would activate the partition. >>> >>> Disk Management can do it. >>> >>>> >>>>It can be seem as slave but when I tried to boot up from it, the system >>>>cannot find the drive. I have gone into bios for the settings which >>>>originally set the 40G drive as IDE-0 but it doesn't matter what I >>>>change >>>>the IDE to (ide-1, ide-2), it always boot from the original drive. >>>> >>>>Any idea ? >>>> >>>>MTIA >>>> >>>>Smiley >>>> >>
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