Re: Unmark a disk as Active
- From: "Jim" <null@xxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 06:39:28 -0800
"David Walker" <None@xxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:Xns970FE9ACD3423DWalker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> "=?Utf-8?B?RGl4b25pYW42OQ==?=" <Dixonian69@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> wrote in news:E567FA8C-F6FC-480E-BCB1-B86E3B5715C1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:
>
> > What is your end goal?
> >
> > there is no need to un-mark active partition.
> > Especially if you're removing it from computer.
> >
> > Are you going to recable now and have 13 gig as slave?
> >
> > run fdisk and remove active status, if you must. i don't you will be
> > able to boot to this drive in this state.
> >
> >
>
> I didn't want to physically remove the first disk *until* after I was
> 100% sure that I had all the data off it and didn't need it any more.
>
> In the meantime, I wanted to make the third disk active, because that
> was eventually going to be the first disk (but not until I pulled the 13
> GB disk that was currently primary master) and have it be the boot disk,
> while leaving the first and second disks in there for the time being.
>
> The 13 GB was going away completely... Eventually. But first I wanted
> to make sure my OS would boot. If things failed, I would re-mark the 13
> GB active and reboot!
>
> As far as I remember, FDisk will SET active status on a disk but won't
> REMOVE it from a disk. Or does it remove ACtive from all other disks
> when you remove one?
>
> Disk Administrator will happily let you mark all your disks active. My
> second disk in the mix had been marked active at some point in the past
> but I didn't want it to be the boot disk -- I wanted the disk that was
> temporarily third in the order to be the boot disk.
>
> I hope all that makes sense; do you see why I wanted to unmark the 13 GB
> (first disk) and the second disk active?
>
> Anyway, as the other commenter said, BootIt NG will do the trick. But
> it costs money, and I was looking for something preferably free...
Actually, it doesn't, not for most partition managent functions. Simply
boot the floppy/CD, and when the Welcome screen appears, hit Cancel. Follow
the prompts until you reach the BootIt NG desktop and hit the partition
manager icon. From there you can perform all the partition management
functions you need, even create backup images.
Jim
> although I do buy software when it does a good job (like SyncBack SE).
>
> David
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