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New HDD stops at setting active part.

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by randerson7

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New HDD during "fdisk" says "No partitions are set active-disk one is not startable unless a partition is set active." Hitting option 2 to set active partition, the screen "Current fixed disk drive:1". i cannot make any changes or set an active partition. Can anyone guide me on this?

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by hal 9000

If you have just run [b]FDISK[/b] and not the Format option after a reboot you'll be unable to set a non-partitioned area as Active.

Also if this is a new clean unused HDD you need to run FDISK to create at least 1 partition and then format it, from your description you don't appear to have a valid Partition available.

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by rajeev_rsd

USE PARTITION TABLE DOCTOR, IT WILL WORK 4 U, WITHOUT DAMAGING THE CURRENT PARTITION TABLE & IT WILL ALSO ABLE TO SET ACTIVE PARTITION AS WELL AS FIXBOOT.
HOPE THIS WILL WORK 4 U
BYE

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