Additional drive appears (drive f) while forematting new drive

Its done the drive is longer there! (screen shot)

I still haven't rebooted, If I don't come back you know what happened!

We don't look at Explorer, we look at Disk Mgmt. We could tell you by looking at it if there's something wrong that could affect its bootability. As long as it still has the System Active flags then nothing should change.

I'm back! The unwanted drive F is gone! I tried my win95-98 programs and they work! I'll do the backup again, and the image if possible!

Thanks guys for the help!

This iss what Disk management looks like now!

Mark G Inactive or else it may steal the boot from System Reserved when Repairs or Reinstall are done. Partition - Mark as Active

The installer or Startup Repair writes the boot files to the first Active partition. Only OS partitions or their boot partition should be Active.

What would be safest is to have the OS in DIsk0 slot, but if that's not possible be sure to also unplug the data drive during any reinstall or repairs, or set its partitions to Logical so they cannot receive boot files: http://www.partitionwizard.com/video...orlogical.html

gregrocker said:

Mark G Inactive or else it may steal the boot from System Reserved when Repairs or Reinstall are done. Partition - Mark as Active

The installer or Startup Repair writes the boot files to the first Active partition. Only OS partitions or their boot partition should be Active.

What would be safest is to have the OS in DIsk0 slot, but if that's not possible be sure to also unplug the data drive during any reinstall or repairs, or set its partitions to Logical so they cannot receive boot files: Video help on how to set partition as Primary or Logical.

I downloaded the program and set drive G as inactive! I checked the disk management page and it did change.


Currently my sata data cables are:

Sata3 0 DVD
Sata3 1 C drive operating sys

Sata2 2 G drive Backup drive
Sata2 3 (empty)
Sata2 4 DVD #2

Can I just swap these cables around? ( power off and unplugged)

VistaKing said:

Try a replug between the cables .

I swaped the cables around where C drive resides in the 0 mother board slot, then rebooted!

Although I did this "disk management " page shows no change! (screen shot) Had no problems booting up!