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Wrong Partition Active! XP no Boot

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Name: brianosaur
Date: January 4, 2006 at 16:09:05 Pacific
OS: xp
CPU/Ram: 3g/1g
Comment:

I inadvertantly made a partition on my non-o/s secondary HDD "active" when I was trying to resize it. Now XP doesn't boot.
I unplugged HDD#2 and ran fdisk to tried to make the o/s partition on HDD#1 active again. I was told no partition could be made active. The partiton was also listed as a non-dos partition.
What should I do?



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Response Number 1
Name: ham30
Date: January 4, 2006 at 17:47:15 Pacific
Reply:

You can't use win9x's fdisk with an XP NTFS drive.
Use the XP Recovery Console and try fixboot and fixmbr.


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Response Number 2
Name: lukeles
Date: January 4, 2006 at 18:53:38 Pacific
Reply:

Hi,

you can try Partition Table Doctor Recovery tool.

It can easily restore partition.


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Response Number 3
Name: jubalsams
Date: January 4, 2006 at 19:36:28 Pacific
Reply:

Make sure CD-ROM is before HDD in BIOS boot sequence then boot with WinXP CD. Press r for recovery console then fixmbr then fixboot.

Remove the CD and reboot.

Best


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Response Number 4
Name: TopFarmer
Date: January 5, 2006 at 06:47:54 Pacific
Reply:

I don't think fixboot or fixmbr will make the partition active , run diskpart (XP's -fdisk) from the recovery console.


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Response Number 5
Name: Bryco
Date: January 6, 2006 at 08:41:12 Pacific
Reply:

If you used Disk Management to make a partition on the second hard drive Active then I don't think that is your problem because you can have two Active partitions as long as they are on separate hard drives as I do.

Bryan


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