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i made a mistake?
  1. #1


    pavilion_alex Guest

    i made a mistake?

    i use windows vista home premium, and i wanted to make a partition on my
    second empty hdd, and by mistake i made the second disk active or something
    like that. i have two hdd, one with vista and the other is empty. will my pc
    still work?



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  2. #2


    TonySper Guest

    Re: i made a mistake?

    Yes. You may want to put a partition on the second HD if you want to use it.
    Vista will boot from the first drive and allow you to write to the second
    drive if you activate it and put a partition on it. If you are able to send
    this from your Vista machine, it must be working.
    TonySper

    "pavilion_alex" <pavilionalex@xxxxxx> wrote in message
    news:6B4E0DC2-0544-4880-8B58-7BE5C6E7C1F9@xxxxxx

    >i use windows vista home premium, and i wanted to make a partition on my
    > second empty hdd, and by mistake i made the second disk active or
    > something
    > like that. i have two hdd, one with vista and the other is empty. will my
    > pc
    > still work?


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  3. #3


    pavilion_alex Guest

    Re: i made a mistake?

    can i undo this option, so to make the second empty drive inactive again?

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  4. #4


    Barry Arrows Guest

    Re: i made a mistake?

    pavilion_alex wrote:

    > can i undo this option, so to make the second empty drive inactive
    > again?
    Yes, have a look here,
    http://forums.microsoft.com/TechNet/...8217&SiteID=17

    Make sure that you select the right HDD, you don't want to set your HDD
    where Windows Vista is installed to inactive.

    If you can't boot windows because you set the HDD with Vista to inactive by
    mistake and you have a DVD with Vista, then power up the system with the DVD
    in the drive to get into its Setup.(make sure CD/DVD is set to boot before
    HDD in the BIOS settings)

    You have to select a language and click "Next" on the first screen that
    appears. Then click "Install Now". When you're asked for your product key
    press SHIFT-F10 which will open a Command Prompt from where you can run
    DISKPART and set it to active again.



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  5. #5


    pavilion_alex Guest

    Re: i made a mistake?

    dear Barry Arrows, i really thank you for the best answer you gave me. it
    worked.

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  6. #6


    Barry Arrows Guest

    Re: i made a mistake?

    pavilion_alex wrote:

    > dear Barry Arrows, i really thank you for the best answer you gave
    > me. it worked.
    You're welcome :-) Glad you got i sorted.



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  7. #7


    Barry Arrows Guest

    Re: i made a mistake?

    Glad you got IT sorted.

    (clumsy fingers)



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