Active Partition

Warning! Do not mark a partition as active if it does not contain the loader
for an operating system. Doing so will cause your computer to stop working.

Problem is that I have already done it, is the harddisk useless now?
What should I have to do to recover it?
I did it in order to install the second OS on the harddisk, but it didn't
see any harddisk to be install, now I can not go back to the C partition!

iamneo wrote:
> Warning! Do not mark a partition as active if it does not contain the loader
> for an operating system. Doing so will cause your computer to stop working.
>

Well, yes. That's what "Active" means: bootable. And there can be
only one. It's been this way for many, many years.

> Problem is that I have already done it, is the harddisk useless now?


No, of course not.


> What should I have to do to recover it?


Boot the computer from another disk and remove the "Active" label from
the incorrect partition, and put it where it belongs.




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> Boot the computer from another disk and remove the "Active" label from
> the incorrect partition, and put it where it belongs.
Please, what do you mean "Boot from another disk"?
My PC run on Windows Vista has only one disk with two partitions C and D,
because of some problems, I decided to change the D partition to "active" in
order to install another OS from a CD disk on the D partiton. After loading
the files from the CD for the installation is finished, it came up with
notification that there no hard is found!
Normally I can change the "C" to ACTIVE again through the Diskette Drive,
but nowaday there is no Diskette Drive on the new PC.
What should I have to do fix that, Thanks
XXX IAMNEO


"Bruce Chambers" wrote:

> iamneo wrote:
> > Warning! Do not mark a partition as active if it does not contain the loader
> > for an operating system. Doing so will cause your computer to stop working.
> >
>
> Well, yes. That's what "Active" means: bootable. And there can be
> only one. It's been this way for many, many years.
>
> > Problem is that I have already done it, is the harddisk useless now?
>
>
> No, of course not.
>
>
> > What should I have to do to recover it?
>
>
> Boot the computer from another disk and remove the "Active" label from
> the incorrect partition, and put it where it belongs.
>
>
>
>
> --
>
> Bruce Chambers
>
> Help us help you:
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
>
> http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx/kb/555375
>
> They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
> safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin
>
> Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell
>
> The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
> killed a great many philosophers.
> ~ Denis Diderot
>

Iamneo wrote:
>> Boot the computer from another disk and remove the "Active" label from
>> the incorrect partition, and put it where it belongs.
> Please, what do you mean "Boot from another disk"?


Floppy drive, CD, etc. Anything other than the internal hard drive.




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Bruce Chambers

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They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety. ~Benjamin Franklin

Many people would rather die than think; in fact, most do. ~Bertrand Russell

The philosopher has never killed any priests, whereas the priest has
killed a great many philosophers.
~ Denis Diderot