Bill, you don't set a hard drive Active, you set a Primary Partition as
Active, and yes, I forgot to mention that in BING you do that in "View MBR",
but I *think* the first Primary you create is automatically set Active by
BING if no Active partition already exists.
Remember that you only need to use a Primary Partition for OS installations.
Use an Extended Partition with Volumes for partitions that will be used for
data storage only (or TEMP partition or whatever.)
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Gary S. Terhune
MS-MVP Shell/User
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"Bill in Co." wrote in message
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ms wrote:
Subject: Everest Report
Date: 8 Oct 2006 19:17:10 GMT
From: ms
Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
ms wrote in :
"PCR" wrote in news:uIugB5v6GHA.2364
@TK2MSFTNGP02.phx.gbl:
But what does this line mean, then? Has it changed...?...
Primary Master User 7921 MB ....LBA
... If so, to what? If it now says "Auto" there, does it still say
just 7921 MB? Is it still LBA? Could be you also need to delete those
empty partitions you've got before the BIOS will detect the hard
drive right. But I just don't know, not for sure.
Good news
In my BING screen "Work with Partitions", I created 4 FAT32 partitions.
They completely use the 10 GB hard drive, no free space.
The first 3 are listed in the screen with names including ANP, the last
one is MBR Entry 3. There is no indication the first partition is active.
Does BING do that automatically?
I don't think so, but I'm not positive. But there is a "set active"
option or button, which I have had to use when cloning my hard drive to a
second (backup) one. Normally the second drive HD1 is NOT set active,
since
the first one (HD0) already is. (I'm talking about booting off the
floppy
in maintenance mode).
When I created the last partition, it went OK. When it completed
formatting and error checking, looked OK but now at the top of the screen
is the legend "errors exist". I looked in Properties in each partition,
no error notation.
Comment?
ms