Crap, what have I done?

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-01-28 11:17pm

Well, I'm still an embarrassing novice when it comes to computers, so I was trying to figure out how you go about partitioning hard drives when I acciendentally clicked something. I was in Disk Management on my WinXP Pro system, and both of my hard drives are labled System. I accidentally clicked something, and now the one I use mostly for music and video files is labled Active. I tried looking things up in Help, but all I got that I kindof understood was,

The system partition must be a primary partition that has been marked as active for startup purposes and must be located on the disk that the computer accesses when starting up the system. There can be only one active system partition on a disk at a time. You can have multiple basic disks and each can have one active partition. However the computer will only start from one specific disk. If you want to use another operating system, you must first mark its system partition as active before restarting the computer.

So now I'm afraid that if I restart my computer it'll do wierd things I don't want it to do, and I have no idea how to undo whatever it is I did.

General Zod · Post by **General Zod** » 2005-01-28 11:54pm

did you make a system restore point before making the change? if so kick on the restore and see if that does the trick.

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-01-29 12:23am

No, I just backed up the disk onto my other disk 'cause there wasn't much on there anyway.

Yeah, I'm a dumbass and forgot about sys restore.

Faram · Post by **Faram** » 2005-01-29 06:55pm

Only one partition can be active at a time.

Just go back to disk manager and r-click the systemdisk and choose "Mark Partition as Active"

Alan Bolte · Post by **Alan Bolte** » 2005-01-29 10:09pm

Er, the option to do that is greyed out.