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Set non-booting partition as active

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  • 10-10-2003 12:24pm
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    oneweb
    Registered Users Posts: 3,146 ✭✭✭


    Oops, I've managed to set my second partition as active using the Windows 2000 Disk Management tool. Which, once I had begun to shutdown, I realised was not what I wanted to do. Obviously, without the OS files to boot from on that partition, I've got a lemon (non-starter).

    So I thought I'd be able to fix it from my Win98SE Hard Disk. Oops, I ended up turning that into a lemon too. (The man with the citrus touch?)

    Thanks be to God, I got the Win98SE system working again.

    How can I set the active partition on my other HD and re-gain access to the files on it? I've tried using fdisk from Win98 (which is how I lost Win98 in the first place), and from a Win98 bootable floppy. Fdisk shows the second partition(DOS) but not the first(NTFS).

    It is what it's.



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    #2
    Frank Grimes
    Registered Users Posts: 5,336 ✭✭✭Frank Grimes


    Partition Magic should do the trick.


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    moridin
    Registered Users Posts: 931 ✭✭✭moridin


    As far as I remember it should show the NTFS partition as a non-dos partition?

    Best solution would be linux fdisk (yay, woohoo etc) or the dos version of partition magic as Mr. Grimes said.


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    hmmm, i used to have a dual boot set up with winxp on the 1st partitiion & win98 on the second.
    i never had a problem setting the ntfs partition as active from win98...
    arconis boot selector is handy for selecting partitions, i use that at the mo for switching between xp on the 1st hd & 98 on the 2nd


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    tman
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,339 ✭✭✭✭tman


    oh yeah, i might've been using this instead of standard fdisk.
    slap that on the boot disk & give it a whirl


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