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February 2nd 05, 01:17 AM
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Creating a bootable partition on a new harddrive
Hello,
I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken 
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February 2nd 05, 08:15 AM
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Ken wrote:
Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. -- Bob H Leeds UK
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February 2nd 05, 12:47 PM
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Bob H wrote:
Ken wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR). In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. Rotflol.
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February 3rd 05, 06:01 AM
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On 1 Feb 2005 17:17:49 -0800, "Ken" wrote:
Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? You have to create a primary partition on the new drive, and make the partition active. Then set your BIOS to boot from the second drive. TIA. Ken
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February 3rd 05, 05:21 PM
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Folkert Rienstra wrote:
Bob H wrote: Ken wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR). In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. Rotflol. Well apart from telling me I am clueless, what is you intelligent answer? Have you done any MS hardware courses? Clueless -- Bob H Leeds UK
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February 3rd 05, 05:22 PM
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Folkert Rienstra wrote:
Bob H wrote: Ken wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR). In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. Rotflol. Ooops, nearly forgot, how many other ppl do you call clueless, troll? -- Bob H Leeds UK
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February 3rd 05, 06:44 PM
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"Bob H" wrote in message
Folkert Rienstra wrote: Bob H wrote: Ken wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR). In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. Rotflol. Ooops, nearly forgot, how many other ppl do you call clueless, troll? What, you own the rights to be the only one? Oh, and get a clue about setting up your newsclient properly too.
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February 3rd 05, 07:24 PM
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"Bob H" wrote in message ... Folkert Rienstra wrote: Bob H wrote: Ken wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR). In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. Rotflol. Ooops, nearly forgot, how many other ppl do you call clueless, troll? Only about 250 according to groups.google |-)
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#9
February 3rd 05, 07:56 PM
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Rod Speed wrote:
"Bob H" wrote in message ... Folkert Rienstra wrote: Bob H wrote: Ken wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR). In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. Rotflol. Ooops, nearly forgot, how many other ppl do you call clueless, troll? Only about 250 according to groups.google |-) Yes, he does come up quite a lot in various discussions I see. It would help if he gave a helpful reply rather than just sit and call anyone else who tries 'Clueless' Troll, I say. -- Bob H Leeds UK
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#10
February 3rd 05, 08:26 PM
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"Bob H" wrote in message ... Rod Speed wrote: "Bob H" wrote in message ... Folkert Rienstra wrote: Bob H wrote: Ken wrote: Hello, I am running Windows 2000 Pro and I have added a new hard drive, creating 2 partitions. Now I want to make both drive bootable. How do I do that? Can I even do that? TIA. Ken You can use Partition Magic or something similar to make active primary partitions, you can only have 1 partition active primary partition at a time. on a single drive (and depending on the bootcode in the MBR). In other words you cannot have 2 active primary partitions at once or whilst using any OS. Clueless. You're on a roll, aren't you. Get a partitioning tool and find out how to use it and what will it do first. Rotflol. Ooops, nearly forgot, how many other ppl do you call clueless, troll? Only about 250 according to groups.google |-) Yes, he does come up quite a lot in various discussions I see. It would help if he gave a helpful reply rather than just sit and call anyone else who tries 'Clueless' Troll, I say. Looks rather more like another of those pathetic creatures no longer kept in locked wards in my opinion.
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