Re: involuntary logical drive in extended partition


"R. C. White" <rc@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi, bgd.

Have you found Disk Management yet? It first appeared in Win2K, 6 years
ago this month, but many users - even Windows veterans - have not yet
found it. It handles many functions previously done by utilities such as
FDISK and Format.exe, including "drive" letter reassignment that was done
by Device Manager in Win9x/ME. Perhaps the quickest way to get to Disk
Management is to type at WinXP's Run prompt: diskmgmt.msc

In Disk Management, you can arrange the View to suit yourself. I prefer
the Volume List at the Top and the Graphical View at the Bottom. And
check the very helpful Help file; follow the Related Topics links because
it is not written linearly so we have to hop around to find the nuggets.

The terminology here is not always intuitive. As many writers have said,
we BOOT from the System Partition and keep the operating SYSTEM files in
the Boot Volume. The Status column should show you which volume is Boot,
which is System and which one (maybe more if you have multiple HDs) is
Active. Only one "status" is shown here for each volume; if the System
Partition is also the Boot Volume, then only the (System) label is shown.

Post back with what you see here. Especially, which volumes are System
and Boot?

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

Of course I found disk management.. I too had disk manaegment on win2k BETA
7 years ago.
and 2k... and xp pro and xp home.
Many hard drives later and 7 os's 8 pcs 4 monitors and more junk that i care
to remember...
This problem has happened 3 times. System partition is fine, it is indeed a
primary.
Could you answer question about leaving os on logical and extended(boot). I
found it after os was in, before that.. Nothing told me anything. It is not
my error, furthermore, and it ought to be fixed.
To sum it up simply:
1 hd is already in with os up and running.. New hard drive installed,
unpartitioned, unformatted as slave.
Disk management formats and partitions the new drive.
<----This is where error must have happened---->
The root of the new drive is set active .The boot os drive, also has an
active.....
<------------------------------------------------>
There is no indication that it is anything but a primary partition.
the bootable one is removed.
New drive in the old drives place.
XP cd to departition the first partition, to be sure the letter was a C:
Again no indication that it is anything other than a primary.
I did this because the os has showed up as other drive letters in past
scenarios similar.
I went to check about defrag and found that it did indeed become a
logical.extended partition along the way.
After 10 gb of transfers tweaking and setups.. my final question...
Can I continue to run the OS boot partition as a logical and extended
partition?
Thank You.


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