silentknight329 Posted May 19, 2008 Share Posted May 19, 2008 Yesterday i started up my computer and it says "no active partition"... so i put in the xp cd set the bios to boot from disk and xp works fine... i find this very strange so does anyone know or have any idea how to fix this.. that would be GREAT! thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Yesterday i started up my computer and it says "no active partition"... so i put in the xp cd set the bios to boot from disk and xp works fine... i find this very strange so does anyone know or have any idea how to fix this.. that would be GREAT! thanks You have to mark a partition as "active". Most partitioning tools (including, IIRC, Windows' own partitioner) can do it though it varies between tools exactly how. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted May 20, 2008 Author Share Posted May 20, 2008 thats the funny thing... they are all active.. i have 3 partitions each 40 gigs each all active.. but when it boots it says there inactive... weird Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonlit Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 thats the funny thing... they are all active.. i have 3 partitions each 40 gigs each all active.. but when it boots it says there inactive... weird No so, I'm afraid, unless you have 3 40GB HDDs. See, there's only 1 partition active on a drive (or should be, if it's bootable, otherwise there's none). So using whichever method or tool you happen to prefer, you must set your boot partition active. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 20, 2008 Share Posted May 20, 2008 Is it possible you wiped your NTLDR or deleted it? Maybe malware got to it? There is a way to put it back on the primary drive, I just don't emmeber how to do it. Check this wiki to see if there is anything that might help: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTLDR Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentknight329 Posted May 21, 2008 Author Share Posted May 21, 2008 sry bout taking so long to reply i tried setting the boot drive to active it gave me that option when right clicking on it so i did... then it said missing NTLDR so i will do some research on how to get it back if you know how let me know. thanks Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
digip Posted May 22, 2008 Share Posted May 22, 2008 sry bout taking so long to reply i tried setting the boot drive to active it gave me that option when right clicking on it so i did... then it said missing NTLDR so i will do some research on how to get it back if you know how let me know. thanks I had a video around here somewhere that walks you through it, but I cant fint it at the moment. I do know that it is something you can do with either an install disc or recovery disc, but you don't do the install, instead you bring up that command promp(I think shift f10, or somethign like that) browse the cd and there is a util to do it for you. Google it, I am sure there is something out there, but I just cant find the video at the moment. Try this: Recovery Console Option Go into the recovery console by booting up with a Windows XP cd and go through the options till you get to the recovery console, you will need the admin password for this option (if you do not know it, just hit enter, that will work if it is blank). Then issue the command: fixboot http://www.tinyempire.com/notes/ntldrismis...dows_without_it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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