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Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector?

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Yousuf Khan wrote
> R. C. White wrote

>>> 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.

> Well, as I said, I removed all of the partitions previously marked as
> "active", and it made no difference.

> It was a royal pain to do it too, because although Windows' Disk
> Management can turn a partition active, but it cannot turn it
> "inactive": what was Microsoft thinking, it costs too much to put the
> reverse command in?

Nope, they just realise that if only one can be active, it makes more
sense to automatically mark just one active when the user specifys which one to make active.

> Instead, I discovered that you have go to an arcane commmand-line based tool called Diskpart to do that. The tool
> itself is not so bad, I figured it out quite quickly, it was just a pain to search through Google to find this command 
> in the first place.

Hardly the end of civilisation as we know it when modern systems
dont use the active flag for anything at all, as you discovered.

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Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-16 08:11 -0500
  Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-16 13:40 +0000
    Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-16 09:56 -0500
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-16 13:20 -0600
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 06:27 +1100
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 01:30 +0000
        Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-17 03:44 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 04:20 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-17 11:53 -0600
            Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 15:42 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 21:07 +0000
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-17 19:23 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "R. C. White" <rc@grandecom.net> - 2012-01-17 20:23 -0600
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-18 03:22 +0000
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 16:05 -0500
            Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 15:50 -0500
              Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Wolf K <wekirch@sympatico.ca> - 2012-01-18 16:55 -0500
                Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-18 19:30 -0500
          Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-18 07:04 +1100
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2012-01-17 06:24 +1100
      Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Arno <me@privacy.net> - 2012-01-17 01:29 +0000
  Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Paul <nospam@needed.com> - 2012-01-16 12:58 -0500
    Re: Automatic Boot Disk redirector? Yousuf Khan <bbbl67@spammenot.yahoo.com> - 2012-01-17 03:48 -0500

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