Active Partitions in Win2k?

[kyarky]

Here is the system layout
C: S: - 15 gig drive - partitioned to 5 (boot) and 10 (network share)
D: - 15 gig drive - just sitting there, labeled healthy & active by win2k disk management
G: H: I: - 40 gig drive - partitioned 13, 13, 13 (network shares)

I have tried to remove the D: drive to use in another system. It's not being used right now, at least, not with my permission. BUT, when I took it out the system flaked out (hehe, yes, I shut down and powered off the system first). When I plugged it back in everything went back to normal. My guess is that Win2k has decided it wanted my extra drive to put some sort of system files onto. In the computer manager, disk management tool, the D: drive is listed as: Fat32, Health, active. I have read through the windows help, and they tell you how to make a disk active, but not what that means to the OS, nor do they tell how to make a disk inactive. Help!

Thanks Mucho,

Joshua

 

[Smilin]

I'm thinking by active you mean writing the disk signature? The os puts a marker on each disk it uses simply to keep track of it in disk manager.

What do you mean it "flaked out" when you took the drive out? Be more specific. Do you have a pagefile or anything on that drive?

 

[kyarky]

No, It doesn't appear to be signature related. For example, The workstation I use day to day has 2 drives in it, neither is listed as (active) in the disk manager in win2k.

When I took the drive out and restarted the computer it would not boot into win2k. It got to the initial start screen with the white bands but locked up. The drive was not part of the computer when win2k was installed, it was added later. I can't think of any reason the system would require it.

Thanks