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Seth
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"Seth" <seth_lermanNOSPAM@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> "Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message
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>>I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, but couldn't get it to show
>>up in Windows Explorer. In Disk Management I tried making the new hard
>>drive active. No problem doing so. Then I read on-line that there can only
>>be one active partition, and I paniced and clicked on my C partition and
>>made it active. I got a warning message, something like "changing active
>>partition may make computer unable to boot."
>>
>> So I continue looking around on-line, and find out that it is only one
>> active partition per drive that can be active, not one partion for the
>> whole computer. There was no problem with making my new F drive active (I
>> didn't know that). BUT ....
>>
>> I find out that some people on-line are saying that in Dell computers the
>> OEM partition on the C drive is the active partition. Who knew? I
>> thought it would be where my Windows installation is, silly me. But it
>> seems that the active partition on my boot drive is the OEM partition,
>> not my main "OS (C" partition.
>>
>> So I decide to change the active partition back to the OEM partition,
>> putting it back the way it originally was. BUT ....
>>
>> There is no menu in Disk Management allowing me to make the OEM partition
>> active! All the other partitions on the two internal hard drives can be
>> made active, but the only menu item on the OEM partition when I right
>> click on it is "help" (pretty ironic, eh?).
>>
>> Now I'm afraid to turn off my computer, for fear that it won't boot up
>> again. My "OS (C" partition on the boot drive (Disk 0) shows "Healthy
>> (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). My unnamed OEM
>> partition on Disk 0 shows "Healthy (OEM Partition)."
>>
>> Does anybody know anything about partitions, and active partitions, and
>> Dell OEM partitions? Is the OEM partition in my Dell the partition that
>> is supposed to be "active" (as I am afraid it is), and will it be
>> impossible for me to boot now that I've made the "OS (C" partition
>> active?
>>
>> If so ... how do I make the OEM partition active once again?
>
>
> The OEM Partition is probably not the one you want to be active. DO you
> (in disk manager) have an approx 100MB partition directly to the right of
> the C: drive partition? Make that one active.
Oops, got left and right backwards...
The partition to the LEFT of the C: partition is what you want to make
active.
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> "Al Smith" <invalid@address.com> wrote in message
> news:dorcn.63129$Db2.32688@edtnps83...
>>I installed a second hard drive, formatted it, but couldn't get it to show
>>up in Windows Explorer. In Disk Management I tried making the new hard
>>drive active. No problem doing so. Then I read on-line that there can only
>>be one active partition, and I paniced and clicked on my C partition and
>>made it active. I got a warning message, something like "changing active
>>partition may make computer unable to boot."
>>
>> So I continue looking around on-line, and find out that it is only one
>> active partition per drive that can be active, not one partion for the
>> whole computer. There was no problem with making my new F drive active (I
>> didn't know that). BUT ....
>>
>> I find out that some people on-line are saying that in Dell computers the
>> OEM partition on the C drive is the active partition. Who knew? I
>> thought it would be where my Windows installation is, silly me. But it
>> seems that the active partition on my boot drive is the OEM partition,
>> not my main "OS (C" partition.
>>
>> So I decide to change the active partition back to the OEM partition,
>> putting it back the way it originally was. BUT ....
>>
>> There is no menu in Disk Management allowing me to make the OEM partition
>> active! All the other partitions on the two internal hard drives can be
>> made active, but the only menu item on the OEM partition when I right
>> click on it is "help" (pretty ironic, eh?).
>>
>> Now I'm afraid to turn off my computer, for fear that it won't boot up
>> again. My "OS (C" partition on the boot drive (Disk 0) shows "Healthy
>> (Boot, Page File, Active, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). My unnamed OEM
>> partition on Disk 0 shows "Healthy (OEM Partition)."
>>
>> Does anybody know anything about partitions, and active partitions, and
>> Dell OEM partitions? Is the OEM partition in my Dell the partition that
>> is supposed to be "active" (as I am afraid it is), and will it be
>> impossible for me to boot now that I've made the "OS (C" partition
>> active?
>>
>> If so ... how do I make the OEM partition active once again?
>
>
> The OEM Partition is probably not the one you want to be active. DO you
> (in disk manager) have an approx 100MB partition directly to the right of
> the C: drive partition? Make that one active.
Oops, got left and right backwards...
The partition to the LEFT of the C: partition is what you want to make
active.