Setting Partition as Active

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Hi all,

I have a system that dual boots Windows XP Home (master hard drive) and
Windows XP Pro (slave drive). I removed the master drive to put it into
another computer and would like the current pc to boot from the slave drive.

Adter a lot of fiddling around I have wiped the first HD and have learnt in
the process that it was this drive that was active and had the MBR on it - my
PC refuses to boot from the slave drive because it previously booted from the
master drive.

I think my problem now is that I need to set the slave drive as an active
partition but I don't know a way of doing this without booting Windows. Is
there any way I can do it from the recovery console?

For information I have run fixmbr, fixboot, bootcfg /rebuild from the
recovery console and have copied ntldr and ntdetect from the installation cd
but none of this solves my problem, I think because the partition is still
not set as active.

Any help appreciated,
Many thanks/

 

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Archived from groups: microsoft.public.windowsxp.help_and_support (More info?)

The system has been installed to another drive letter than C: . It's not going to run from C, unless you did a very difficult set of
registry edits, not to mention the replacement of C, and fixboot-bootcfg to get that far. I don't recommend trying it.

You can put that drive in another system, 'take ownership' of the data, and save it to CD, then start over on the disabled machine.

--
Mark L. Ferguson
FAQ for Windows Antispy http://www.geocities.com/marfer_mvp/FAQ_MSantispy.htm
"worley2" <worley2@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message news:1A0A02B9-39A8-4F71-9112-6569C173832A@microsoft.com...
> Hi all,
>
> I have a system that dual boots Windows XP Home (master hard drive) and
> Windows XP Pro (slave drive). I removed the master drive to put it into
> another computer and would like the current pc to boot from the slave drive.
>
> Adter a lot of fiddling around I have wiped the first HD and have learnt in
> the process that it was this drive that was active and had the MBR on it - my
> PC refuses to boot from the slave drive because it previously booted from the
> master drive.
>
> I think my problem now is that I need to set the slave drive as an active
> partition but I don't know a way of doing this without booting Windows. Is
> there any way I can do it from the recovery console?
>
> For information I have run fixmbr, fixboot, bootcfg /rebuild from the
> recovery console and have copied ntldr and ntdetect from the installation cd
> but none of this solves my problem, I think because the partition is still
> not set as active.
>
> Any help appreciated,
> Many thanks/