Please help! bootable hard disk

Tom McCord wrote:

I am amazed at what has changed with XP over 98. I am
just learning diskpart rather than FDISK. I have no idea
how to make a drive bootable in XP.

From a recovery console use
diskpart
list partitions
to find the number n of the one you want to make active
select partition n
active
exit

BTW - apart from the system's own partition (which you normally set up
as part of installing the system anyway) I suggest you use Control Panel
- Admin Tools - Computer Management, select Disk Management and look
lower right for the graphic of the drive. In that you can r-click in
Unallocated space, or Free space to make a partition or volume, or in an
existing partition to reformat or delete it - or to change drive letters
of a partition or CD/DVD etc (apart from the system's partition)


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Alex Nichol MS MVP (Windows Technologies)
Bournemouth, U.K. (remove the D8 bit)