Windows xp recovery make partition active

I cannot find any way to do it. Does anyone know how? Google found lots of false answers out on the net. Most give the result E for this example, which is plain wrong. Some give the result C which doesn't even exist. You're right, in your example BOOT. INI might not be in the active partition. So there is no way for me to find which BOOT. INI was actually used.

INI files that are found in root directories, and hope that one of them will be the correct one. Posted June 24, Any info is greatly appreciated. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options Posted June 24, edited. I'm really wondering if one couldnt modify some open source boot loader GRUB for example , to be self-contained with a configuration that has only two options: Wait for a special keycode and if that key is pressed, unhide for example the last partition on the drive and boot it.

If the timeout is hit, boot the partition marked active. Edited June 24, by bj-kaiser. Acronis True Image is the solution. Its gr8 software. IcemanND Posted June 24, DSP Posted June 25, Posted June 25, Posted June 26, I'v got one question is there about we can do something like this? IcemanND Posted June 26, DSP Posted June 27, Posted June 27, This is the part where I'm getting confused: 1.

How to put the XP installation files on the final bartPE 2. How to start the whole recovery from bartPE Tnx. Create an account or sign in to comment You need to be a member in order to leave a comment Create an account Sign up for a new account in our community.

Register a new account. Sign in Already have an account? This article shows how to setup your primary partition as active using the diskpart utility. However, you can use Disk Management if you can boot into Windows and do the necessary changes to your partition:. You can use Command Prompt from Easy Recovery Essentials and run the diskpart utility to make the necessary modifications to a partition:.

To download Easy Recovery Essentials, click here. Marking a partition as active on Windows Vista systems follows the same steps as the steps for Windows 7 or Windows 8. Where 0 is the disk listed by the list disk command.

Type: list partition Press Enter Type: select partition 1 Where 1 is your partition.