disable 'active' status on a hard drive

Posted: 04-04-2004, 11:31 AM

alan

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how do you disable the 'active' status of a hard drive? i
need to access it and i am unable to

disable 'active' status on a hard drive

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bob

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RE: disable 'active' status on a hard drive

Posted: 04-04-2004, 07:26 PM

Hah?

Jerry

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Re: disable 'active' status on a hard drive

Posted: 04-04-2004, 08:48 PM

Try booting with a DOS boot floppy nad then run FDISK. One of the options is
for activating the boot drive.

"alan" <alana257@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> how do you disable the 'active' status of a hard drive? i
> need to access it and i am unable to

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