Re: how do I deactivate primary partition?

rudyh wrote:

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

You don't need to change the active partition on the old drive. Just slave it to the new drive and copy away.

Steve

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