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Mixing Hard drives
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C: Drive (400gig) is partitioned c: Partition Basic NTFS Healthy(system) 127.99GB D: Partition Basic NTFS Healthy 240.31GB The Actual drive is a Western Digital WDC WD4000KD-00NAB0 Sata I think Right clicking the D: Drive in computer management gives me the option to make it (Active), should I? Disk 0 E: Drive (200gig) is partitioned E: Partition Basic ntfs Healthy (active)186.31GB This Drive came from my old P4 system also Western Digital WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0 and is connected via a seperate cable and mobo socket. Is it ok to have these two drives on this system or should E: Drive be also, Sata? What is meant by active? The reason for this post is that the system sometimes freezes on the Welcome Screen on boot-up. Thanks Processor Model: 1x Dual Core AMD Opteron(tm) Processor 165 Speed: 1.81GHz Model Number: 2914 (estimated) Performance Rating: PR5428 (estimated) Cores per Processor: 2 Unit(s) Threads per Co 1 Unit(s) Type: Dual-Core Internal Data Cache: 2x 64kB Synchronous, Write-Back, 2-way set, 64 byte line size L2 On-board Cache: 2x 1MB ECC Synchronous, Write-Back, 16-way set, 64 byte line size Mainboard Bus(es): AGP PCI USB i2c/SMBus MP Support: 2 Processor(s) MP APIC: No System BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F7 Mainboard: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. nForce Total Memory: 2GB DDR-SDRAM Chipset 1 Model: Nvidia Corp nforce3 CPU to PCI Bridge Front Side Bus Speed: 2x 804MHz (1608MHz data rate) Chipset 2 Model: Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon 64 / Opteron HyperTransport Technology Configuration Front Side Bus Speed: 2x 804MHz (1608MHz data rate) Total Memory: 2GB DDR-SDRAM Memory Bus Speed: 2x 201MHz (402MHz data rate) |
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"Mickey Mouse" wrote in message u... Disk 1 C: Drive (400gig) is partitioned c: Partition Basic NTFS Healthy(system) 127.99GB D: Partition Basic NTFS Healthy 240.31GB The Actual drive is a Western Digital WDC WD4000KD-00NAB0 Sata I think Right clicking the D: Drive in computer management gives me the option to make it (Active), should I? Disk 0 E: Drive (200gig) is partitioned E: Partition Basic ntfs Healthy (active)186.31GB This Drive came from my old P4 system also Western Digital WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0 and is connected via a seperate cable and mobo socket. Is it ok to have these two drives on this system or should E: Drive be also, Sata? What is meant by active? The reason for this post is that the system sometimes freezes on the Welcome Screen on boot-up. Yes, it's OK to have several drives of different types... your active drive is the one the system boots from |
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Mickey Mouse wrote: Disk 1 C: Drive (400gig) is partitioned c: Partition Basic NTFS Healthy(system) 127.99GB D: Partition Basic NTFS Healthy 240.31GB The Actual drive is a Western Digital WDC WD4000KD-00NAB0 Sata I think Right clicking the D: Drive in computer management gives me the option to make it (Active), should I? Only if you want to boot from it. Disk 0 E: Drive (200gig) is partitioned E: Partition Basic ntfs Healthy (active)186.31GB This Drive came from my old P4 system also Western Digital WDC WD2000JB-00GVA0 and is connected via a seperate cable and mobo socket. Is it ok to have these two drives on this system or should E: Drive be also, Sata? You can mix PATA, SATA and SCSI on the same system and (depending on the BIOS) boot from whichever drive you want. What is meant by active? If a partition is active you can boot from it. You can have one active partition on each physical drive. The system will boot from the active partiton on the drive selected as the boot drive. The reason for this post is that the system sometimes freezes on the Welcome Screen on boot-up. -- Mike Walsh West Palm Beach, Florida, U.S.A. |
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"Mickey Mouse" wrote:
What is meant by active? The Primary partition marked "active" is the one whose Boot Sector gets control from the hard drive's Master Boot Record at boot-up. The boot sector starts up "ntldr", the boot manager. This loader, plus boot.ini and ntdetect.com comprise the "boot files" that control the boot-loading of Windows. But this "active" partition needn't be the partition that contains the Windows operating system. *That* partition can be anywhere in the system - on a Primary partition or in an Extended partition, and on any hard drive. Microsoft calls the booting partition (the one with the boot files) the "system" partition. It calls the partition containing the operating system the "boot" partition. Yes, it's inuitively backwards, but that's Microsoft. The thing to remember is that the "active" partition containing the boot files, and the partition containing the operating system can be DIFFERENT PARTITIONS, although they are frequently the same partition. The thing that points to the location of the operating system is the entry in the boot.ini file - chosen by default at boot time or by the user from the menu presented at boot time for multi- booted systems. *TimDaniels* |
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"Timothy Daniels" wrote in message ... "Mickey Mouse" wrote: What is meant by active? The Primary partition marked "active" is the one whose Boot Sector gets control from the hard drive's Master Boot Record at boot-up. The boot sector starts up "ntldr", the boot manager. This loader, plus boot.ini and ntdetect.com comprise the "boot files" that control the boot-loading of Windows. But this "active" partition needn't be the partition that contains the Windows operating system. *That* partition can be anywhere in the system - on a Primary partition or in an Extended partition, and on any hard drive. Microsoft calls the booting partition (the one with the boot files) the "system" partition. It calls the partition containing the operating system the "boot" partition. Yes, it's inuitively backwards, but that's Microsoft. The thing to remember is that the "active" partition containing the boot files, and the partition containing the operating system can be DIFFERENT PARTITIONS, although they are frequently the same partition. The thing that points to the location of the operating system is the entry in the boot.ini file - chosen by default at boot time or by the user from the menu presented at boot time for multi- booted systems. *TimDaniels* Ok, Let me explain this again. C: drive is a SATA WD 400 GB and is partitioned C: 127.99GB and D: partioned to 244.62GB Computer management indicates that C: is Healthy and D: is Healthy I've installed my old IDE HD (WD200gb) from my old machine with seperate ribbon and it is now E: drive Computer management indicates the E: is also Healthy AND ACTIVE. How did E: get to be active instead of C:? If I format E: will my system boot? Can I switch the active from E: to C: What is the best way to get things back to the way it should be? I'm prepared to reformat everything if I have to. Mickey |
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