Setting Active Partition
Deana
started expanding, deleting, etc, etc. What she is left with is unbootable.
A FAT16 partition was somehow made active, and her server installation is on
an NTFS Logical drive. Is there anything she can do to get her server
partition active again?
Thanks,
DJ
Bjorn Landemoo
A logical drive in an extended partition cannot be active, only primary
partitions can be active. Fdisk from a Win9x floppy can be used to set a
primary partition as active. Normally, the first primary partition on the
first disk is the active partition, or - at least - this is the most common
setup when installing on a clean disk. In some cases, on a server, there
will be a small EISA partition in the beginning of the disk, in this case,
try setting the second primary partition as active.
Best regards
Bjorn
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Microsoft MVP - Windows Server Networking
Deana
server was running fine before she started playing with PQMagic - the server
was originally on the primary, active NTFS partition (system and boot on the
same partition). She had an extended partition/LD for data, and 3rd and 4th
FAT partitions for storing images. There is also the small EISA partition.
Somehow, the 3rd FAT partition became primary (C:) and active after
rebooting. It definitely wasn't before. FDISK now sees the original primary
partition as part of a large extended partition with a logical drive
assigned to the portion previously used for data.The original primary has no
LD assignment at all. She has now deleted the primary FAT partition and
created another W2K Server using that space. She's been using PQMagic 4 but
as far as I know it isn't supposed to work with WIN2K servers ... could this
have caused something this strange? We're pretty confused here.
Thanks again,
DJ
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Pen
"system requirements" and it supported "Windows NT 4.0
Workstation only." Assuming she is using the NT version
from the CD. I don't know about PM 5.0, as I don't have it,
but PM 6.0 does support win 2k. Perhaps someone else can comment on
whether the versions of NTFS between NT and 2K are different enough
to be an issue here, and also about the workstation vs. server
versions, which
isn't supported by PM 4.0. Any way you slice it though,
she has trashed the partitions.
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Bjorn Landemoo
I have to admit that I am quite confused as well... :)
My use of PM is limited, and I cannot say if it is possible to convert a
primary partition to a logical drive within an extended partition with it,
or if it is possible to go back - all this without loosing data.
My suggestion would be - if the machine boots to the second copy of Win2000
- to backup all data needed and accessible, and then reinstall.
PM shouldn't confuse a primary partition with a logical drive in an
extended partition, even with version 4, but you never know.
Alan S.
particular version/variant of PQMagic will support full featured while
running in GUI mode, i.e., under the OS. But you can still run the
recovery disks from, e.g., PQMagic3 on any new PC and find that most
file systems are supported.
I encountered some bugs in PQMagic (version3???) which gave 'no active
partition' errors when logical (FAT) OS/2 boot drives were moved. As
far as I recall, the only way I was able the overcome PQMagic's
confabulation was to delete&recreate the partitions.
Alan S.
5/27/2003
