On Fri, 5 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

>
> I think the active partition on the 2nd
> disk is your problem.  XP takes notice
> of it, and will put it logically before
> partitions on the first disk.
>
> So, if you can, deactivate it from XP.
> You may need to then assign the D: letter
> to the right partition after you do this.
> Hopefully XP would do the right thing though.
>

How do I go about deactivating the active partition on my 2nd drive?
Are you saying there is a risk my partition info for my 1st drive will be
lost?

> Only then replace the second disk.
>
> (Are you sure you do not have any fat/ntfs/windows
> partitions on the 2nd disk?)
>

The 2nd disk contains no Windows-readable partitions, i.e. no fat/ntfs

 - Tokes

> Matt
>
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