Reply to part #1: Any FORMER Windows drive that has a Primary Partition
that is marked Active AND has the OS files on it MAY try to boot...
Those things are the min Windows needs to boot...
IT if boots or not (since WPA) is another story. IF it was a boot drive in a
different computer the water is even muddier...
Part #2: True. (Sometimes)... The BIOS will look for the first Primary Partition
that is marked active and boot from that, OR at least try...
Why sometimes?... SOme BIOSs will allow the assignment of a certain HD
as the boot device, and ignore all other drives that would otherwise
"qualify"...
Part #3: It is sometimes hard to "un-mark" a partition as NOT-Active once it
is...
(At least non-distructively.) Older OS versions did not like more than one
Active
partition in a system, and "aggressively" un-marked them during an OS install...
(It might still do that BTW<?>...)
I never have any trouble having more than one Active Primary partition
(on different physical spindles) in my computers, and if the drives are
different
"vintage" installs from the same hardware exactly, I have no problems with WPA,
and can select from which ever I want to boot from...
Saying that another way, I can have 2 or 3 clones of (and in) the same machine
hooked
up and boot from any one of them...
Rick Glazier
From: "Jim Poer"
Part #1
SO I'm confused now, shouldn't C be the active drive?? because it is
definately booting into the C drive which shows as the
Healthy(System) under Disk Management. What does active mean anyway?
Part #2
F is active as it was OS partition, and the hardware will use it to boot IF
the drive on port 0 is not bootable)
Part #3
Do I need to change any of these settings??
Jim
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