Set non-booting partition as active

oneweb · 10-10-2003 12:24PM #1

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).

Frank Grimes · 10-10-2003 12:32PM

Partition Magic should do the trick.

moridin · 10-10-2003 02:34PM

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.

tman · 10-10-2003 05:55PM

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

tman · 10-10-2003 06:02PM

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

Set non-booting partition as active

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