New build - Active partition query

New PC build, new SATA drive with Win XP Home SP2.

Just added an IDE drive from an older PC and Disk Management is showing as disk 0 and the first partition of this as a logical drive and *active* (there is no system or data on it).

The SATA drive with the system loaded is now shown as disk 1 (was disk 0) and the C partition as healthy (system).

This system is booting OK, although pausing for confirmation of the IDE disk for some reason, but I would have thought the C partition on the SATA drive should be the active one but I cannot find a way of 'inactivating' the current active partition.

Grateful for any advice.

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rbel
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