Mark
Tue Mar 25 17:30:24 PDT 2008
OK, I didn't realize the recovery console version was deficit. I would boot
to a dos floppy, or CD, and use the Fdisk utility to set an active
partition.
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Mark L. Ferguson
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"Gaby" <Gaby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the answer but the diskpart utility in the Recovery Console
> does
> not have the same functionality and only seems to allow creation and
> deletion
> of partitions. There seems to be no command line functionality other than
> that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gaby
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
>>
>> Commands to Set Focus:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415/en-us#
>> select disk, select partition, set active
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>> "Gaby" <Gaby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > My XP PC is not booting ("no bootable device" or something similar). I
>> > would
>> > like to found out which partition is considered as active since I
>> > suspect
>> > there is no active partition at the moment due to an error I made on
>> > the
>> > Disk
>> > Management Console before rebooting. However, using the Recovery
>> > Console
>> > from
>> > the XP disk, the utility diskpart does not seem to allow anything more
>> > than
>> > the creation and deletion of new partitions. It seems to have a very
>> > different functionality to the utility accessible from Windows. Is
>> > there
>> > any
>> > other way therefore to check which partition is active?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Gaby
>>