Is it booting with E unplugged? Good work.
Make sure E stays marked Inactive. If not, I'd move the data off and use PW CD to Wipe the HD from Disk tab. I would not want it continuiing to hold the System flag as it could interfere in the future.
no :) it did the job with everything still plugged
only made E inactive before Rebuilding MBR, didnt autostart either
hence the "quickly and easily" remark :)
it remains inactive and everything is fine, thanks again
Sounds good.
Just one last question: Is C now System Active?
yes it is.
the other two, E and F are 'Primary partition'
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