Drives or partitions? An Active partition is the one that the system should use to boot from (note the boot facility picks the OS to load, and the OS sets the partition letters)
Re your boot order - I'd set the hard drive first If you want to load whatever's on the USB device you can always set it back With the current setup, if you didn't want to boot the drive formatter on your USB stick it'll be a bit late! And, I thought we had established that the OS's are not identical You only get that if you copy the OS partition from 1 drive to the same location on another drive, and do not use either the original, or the copy. JimB ----- Original Message ----- From: "Jim Poer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, January 11, 2007 9:56 PM Subject: Re: How to install slave drive > Yes, I understand, but for instance my other PC, it has only 2 drives C and > D and neither is marked as active, only C drive is marked as System. Will I > only see Active on systems with more than 2 drives? Since this PC has 2 > identical OS's on it(one on Drive C and the other on Drive F), I do not know > which it is operating from, so could I safely clean off Drive F? This is the > same PC I installed the large drive into and all of a sudden was being asked > to reactivate, so I took it out and wired it for a slave. Would that have > affected the settings? Just for information the boot order is set to IDE > CD-ROM, Diskette(A),USB Device,Hard Drive(C),Compaq Ethernet Controller. In > that order. > Jim > -- ---------------------------------------- WIN-HOME Archives: http://PEACH.EASE.LSOFT.COM/archives/WIN-HOME.html Contact the List Owner about anything: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Official Win-Home List Members Profiles Page http://www.besteffort.com/winhome/Profiles.html
