Marking Partitions Active in Win2k (Help!)

[xcoldricex]

How do I mark partitions active in Windows 2000? I found the option in the Disk Management- but its always greyed out. I need to mark my C: active because when i try to attach a SCSI HD to my SCSI controller it will become C: and try to boot off that hard drive. Anyone have any solutions? Thanks a lot.

 

[jaywallen]

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, your C: drive is already active. That's why the option would normally be greyed out on the context menu. Is drive C: another SCSI drive, or is it IDE? What controller (type and priority) is it on?

Regards,
Jim

 

[xcoldricex]

The option is greyed out for both my C: and my D: (both IDE)- I'm trying to add a SCSI drive just for storage- its on an Adaptec 2490U and priority is 1 i believe. When i hook up the drive to the card- it will load as C: and attempt to boot off the SCSI drive instead of the C: IDE drive.

 

[resinboy]

go into the motherboard bios. make sure the boot order is A drive(floppy), c drive, then go into scsi card bios to make sure you do not have the scsi drive set as a boot device.
Resinboy

 

[Pariah]

You can set the active partition in dos using fdisk. Check your BIOS and make sure SCSI is not selected as the initial boot device.

 

[xcoldricex]

In the bios its already set up as A:, C:, SCSI the SCSI card loads the drive before the boot process starts so it turns to the SCSI device- odd...?

 

[bacillus]

is your c drive on an inbuilt promise controller ide?:frown:
I'm asking as the promise controller is also seen as a scsi device!