Re: how do I deactivate primary partition?

Hi, Rudy.

As Dave says, you're mixing apples and oranges.

There can be only one active partition at a time ON EACH HD. I'm currently
running 3 HDs and each has an Active (bootable) partition. So I can change
the boot device (in the BIOS or by unplugging something) and boot from any
of the 3. But so long as all 3 are online, I can freely copy to and from
any of them.

Have you actually seen a problem, or are you just hoping to head off one in
advance?

RC
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R. C. White, CPA
San Marcos, TX
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Microsoft Windows MVP

"rudyh" <rudyh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:E5A6E7F5-5A9D-4470-8C02-1A8BED4A7078@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>I want to be able to copy data from a currently active drive to a new drive
> which has XP installed. Since there can only be one active partition at a
> time, how do I turn off the active status on the old drive?
>
> Thank You


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