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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector?

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On 17/01/2012 12:53 PM, R. C. White wrote:
> Hi, Yousuf.
>
>> Well, as I said, I removed all of the partitions previously marked as
>> "active", and it made no difference.
>
> Well, as I said, ONE partition on the boot device MUST be "active".
> That's the partition that will act as the "System Partition" - and that
> "System" label will appear in Disk Management's Status column for that
> partition.

Well, obviously I left the one disk with an active partition alone, the 
one that I actually intend to boot with.

>> Windows' Disk Management can turn a partition active, but it cannot
>> turn it "inactive"
>
> Since there can be only ONE active partition on each disk, you can mark
> Partition 2 inactive by simply making Partition 2 Active.
>
> To make Partition 1 Inactive, right-click on Partition 2 and mark it
> Active. Since Disk Management knows that there can be only one active
> partition, it will automatically remove the Active mark from Partition
> 1. If you then make Partition 3 Active, both Partitions 1 and 2 will
> become Inactive.
>
> So, you automatically make Partition 1 INactive by making another
> primary partition Active.

I see the problem here, you're not aware that my system has six internal 
hard disks in it, as well as occasionally 3 external ones. When I said I 
had multiple active partitions, I meant they were active over different 
disks, not on the same disk.

This is why I asked the question in the first place, when external disks 
are occasionally plugged in during boot, they mess up the hard disk 
priority order in the BIOS. So a drive that is not my boot disk may be 
listed ahead of my boot disk in the BIOS disk priority.

>> you have go to an arcane commmand-line based tool called Diskpart to
>> do that.
>
> Yes, the DiskPart shell is very powerful - and arcane - so it must be
> used with care. Disk Management is really just the "pretty face" GUI for
> DiskPart. It does MOST of what DiskPart does and in a less-intimidating
> way. (Earlier Windows had a Diskpart command in the Recovery Console,
> but that was quite limited to just creating and deleting partitions.)

Yeah, I can remember using something similar to diskpart in the XP & 
2000 command-line recovery console.

	Yousuf Khan

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