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From: Mackenrick on 23 Jun 2010 20:50
I was trying to fix my XP computer by using a Ghost9 Image of my C drive but
I think I restored it to the wrong partition. I have two hard drives in my
computer. HD1 has C and D partitions and HD2 has G and H partitions (NTSF).
(I use G & H for backups, etc.)

I had to do the restore twice because I thought it didn't take but during
one of the restores I think I restored to the wrong drive (G Drive). I
found that I now have two drives with all the stuff that was on my C drive.
So now I have a C drive and a G drive that are almost identical.

When I look in Device Manager is shows:

Disk0 = C Primary 30GB (System) D 110GB Extended Logical

Disk1 = G Primary 29GB (Active) H 45GB Extended Logical

So my question is: Which drive am I currently booting from? Is it the C
drive that is labeled (System) or is it the G drive that is labeled (Active)?

Thank you for your help.

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MacKenrick
From: undisclosed on 23 Jun 2010 21:21

Its booting from the active one, although I don't see why this would of
changed because its a bios setting and it should still be using the same
hard drive, When you change your boot menu you don't select partitions
just the drive.
You cant normally make logical drives active either, is your info
correct or is your system really confused?
Go to computer management and go to disk management
Or click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc. There you can change your
desired partition, just make sure you get one that will boot or you'll
have a right headache.


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JAM_EZZ
From: Mackenrick on 23 Jun 2010 23:16
Thanks for the reply. If I'm understanding you correctly, your saying I'm
booting from the "Active" drive, which is listed Disk Management, as my G
Drive. G drive is listed as a primary partition on my second hard drive.
My Bios is set to boot from my first hard drive so I'm still confused how
this is working.
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MacKenrick


"undisclosed" wrote:

>
> Its booting from the active one, although I don't see why this would of
> changed because its a bios setting and it should still be using the same
> hard drive, When you change your boot menu you don't select partitions
> just the drive.
> You cant normally make logical drives active either, is your info
> correct or is your system really confused?
> Go to computer management and go to disk management
> Or click Start > Run and type diskmgmt.msc. There you can change your
> desired partition, just make sure you get one that will boot or you'll
> have a right headache.
>
>
> --
> JAM_EZZ
> .
>
From: undisclosed on 24 Jun 2010 05:37

Yes, you will always boot from the active drive. I'm really not sure why
it is booting form the second drive now. I haven't seen that before.
If it was a machine i was doing i would take out the power cable for
the second drive and then boot boot form the first drive, i imagine it
will just work. Then you know that you can do what you want with your
second drive. I would probably format the partition.
Something i do a lot is unplug unnecessary secondary drives if im
doing something like reinstalling windows or formating drives, I've only
ever made the mistake a couple of times but that was enough and now i
can be sure that it wont happen. Maybe something that could help you in
the future.


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JAM_EZZ
From: John John - MVP on 24 Jun 2010 06:40
You're booting off the "System" partition as labeled in the Disk
Management console. To open the Disk Management Console enter
diskmgmt.msc in the Start Menu Run box. You are using the Windows
installation on the "Boot" volume, as shown in the Disk Management
console. If there is no notation for the "Boot" volume it means that
the System and Boot volumes are on the same partition. You can also
obtain the information at the Command Prompt with the SET SYSTEM command.

John

Mackenrick wrote:
> Thanks for the reply. If I'm understanding you correctly, your saying I'm
> booting from the "Active" drive, which is listed Disk Management, as my G
> Drive. G drive is listed as a primary partition on my second hard drive.
> My Bios is set to boot from my first hard drive so I'm still confused how
> this is working.
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