I asked before and was told it could not be done, well its Done...??

Yes how to reset a Boatable hard drive to a none boot one..

Every one here stated I would have to reformat the HD to do this...Utter
Bollocks


Use PTedit.exe


You can dnloaded it from the PQ Magic site or use the one later version that
come with PQ Magic when you make the Rescue Floppy disks..

Its on Disk 1. ptedit.exe

This will display the Partition Table info

The Boot sector are shown with a 80 as a boot flag, just type a 00 and
save..

Here is some info regarding ptedit.exe



http://www.goodells.net/multiboot/ptedit.htm



And with out loosing any data..

 

Not a problem as long as you use an outboard motor.

E. Scrooge

 

fdisk on linux'll do it in half a sec. fdisk/mbr will *propably* do it
on dos.

Steve

 

everyone?
I never commented, or even saw the post.
when was it?

Besides, you're Rogers sister, and you hadn't posted here before a few
weeks ago

 

Outboard motor? Surely you mean "outbored moater"?

 

hehe

If I remember correctly, he was given about 6 ways of doing it but refused
to acknowledge any of them.

Cheers
Anton

 

Utter Crap, all required the Drive to be reformatted..

 

I do have all the Post's here to back up my Statement, so Why Lie..?

 

The rest of us don't have the posts, because you have chosen not to allow
archiving by sites such as Google Groups. So it's your word against the rest
of us, and you know we don't believe most of what you say.

 

Bollox, none of the Linux based solutions eg Knoppix with cfdisk etc
required reformatting the disk either (or even installing Linux).

cfdisk can toggle the bootable flag on and off for any partition, and is
way easier and safer than manually editing your partition table.

You refused to acknowledge their validity because that would contradict
your ideological opinions about Linux.

I'm guessing that many of the Windows based solutions you were offered
probably would've worked as well.

And as Don has pointed out, your refusal to let your posts be archived is
your only flimsy defense against being frequently proven wrong.

Cheers
Anton

 

I use a OS not a Bit Of JUNK..

Even my Boss was a bit of a LUNIX Addict, here repented and went back to MS..

He told me all the problems that you have to compile it on every system and
every application.

Stuff that you can keep it..




So why bring it up when I don't ever use this utter CRAP..?



PLUS I HAVE ALL THE COPIES HERE OF ALL THE POSTS MADE, I am not referring to
my posts but the Replies they are all on Google..

IT JUST PROVES YOU ARE ALL A BUCH OD WANKERS AND JUST DON'T KNOW A THING..

I Rest my Case..

 

All the Replies are on google..

I am not referring to my posts but the replies that were given..

Here is the header & body


No.1

How to disable Active Partition...


No.2

How to disable Active Partition...No Valid replies

==============================================================
I have 2 HD on a Controller, they both have active boot partitions, tried all
the tools I can find but none let me turn of the active partition on the
second drive..

So how can it be done..?

So Don look on Google and see the useless replies.

 

You used to say the same thing about XP.

Well either he doesn't know what he is talking about, or you didn't hear
him correctly.

The vast majority of users will never have to compile anything.

You don't have to be a Linux user to do this. Just boot from the Knoppix
CD (no install required - it runs out of a ram disk and doesn't install
to the HD), then run the cfdisk utility, untoggle the bootable flag,
write the partition table, shutdown remove the CD, reboot. All done. No
risky manual editing of partition tables.

That was a workable free solution that you refused to acknowledge.

You can't criticise it if you don't know the slightest thing about it.

So the people that offered workable solutions don't know a thing, but you
who stuck his fingers in his ears and shouted "la la la - I can't hear
you!" are nz.comp's paragon of wisdom?

Well it really needed a rest.

 

The answer was given by Anton, what's the problem with his suggestion?

http://groups.google.co.nz/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=

 

But I would trust his word more than the Idiots her..

Please tell me what this CD as I have only seen it being referred to by Lunix
Addicts..

(no install required - it runs out of a ram disk and doesn't install

Please list them all as I just can't find them.,.?

 

A Linix one I think..?

 

Well just in case using Google is too strenuous for you...

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix-info/index-en.html

It's a bootable CD image that autodetects practically all your hardware
and boots into a GUI with Open Office and web browsers etc available. It
runs completely from your RAM and doesn't install anything to your hard
drive.

That way you can evaluate Linux without installing anything. It also
allows you do to a bunch of diagnosis and repair stuff on non booting
systems. Yes it even has useful tools for resurrecting Windows machines.

It's a free download, and you have nothing to lose by trying it. It's not
going to infect you with unix cooties or anything - it's just a useful
tool. Even some Windows users use it to check for faulty hardware on their
machines - ie if it works in Knoppix it's more than likely to be a driver
problem in Windows rather than faulty hardware.

Here's a local copy:
http://ftp.citylink.co.nz/knoppix/

You have to admit that it's a pretty cool piece of work, and anyone that
can't see that is a grumpy bastard IMO. Refusing to look into it further
just because it's "Lunix" is pretty sad.

What's wrong with widening your horizons a little?

Cheers
Anton

 

IIRC theres a smaller image rescue cd based on knoppix that has qtparted
http://www.sysresccd.org/

 

Why is that a problem, you know how to read, you must have done a lot
of upskilling and paradigm shifting over the years, it shouldn't be
out of your grasp if you wanted to do it.

 

<pours petrol on the flames...>

Yeah, after all he progressed from mainframe engineer to chief VCR head
cleaner!

He's nothing if not versatile.