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| From | Arno <me@privacy.net> |
|---|---|
| Newsgroups | alt.windows7.general, comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage |
| Subject | Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? |
| Date | 2012-01-17 01:30 +0000 |
| Message-ID | <9nk1abFvtaU2@mid.individual.net> (permalink) |
| References | <4f14220e$1@news.bnb-lp.com> <9ninn7Fq9gU1@mid.individual.net> <4f143abe@news.bnb-lp.com> <qsednSoOpN8a5YnSnZ2dnUVZ_tmdnZ2d@posted.grandecom> |
Cross-posted to 2 groups.
In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.storage R. C. White <rc@grandecom.net> wrote:
> Hi, Yousuf.
>> I have already tried removing the active property from any partitions that
>> had active set in them
> This may be a big part of your problem. In order to boot from a disk, it
> must have exactly ONE "active" partition. To be marked active ("bootable"),
> that must be a primary partition, not a logical drive in an extended
> partition.
No. In order to boot old Windows versions it has to be like that.
But as the BIOS does not undertsnd partitions, it does not understand
whether a partition is active or not.
Arno
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