Storage Solutions Marked a Non-OS Drive as active.

[m0h1t]

I accidentally marked a newly formatted non-os drive as active.

And then i read this...

Do not mark a partition as active if it does not contain the loader for an operating system. Doing so will cause your computer to stop working.

Mark a partition as active - Windows Vista Help

Now I'm scared to restart my machine...

ki karaan?

edit: I have vista bcd backed up though, would vista dvd repair be able to rectify any possible damage?

 

[Styx]

Well, just reassign the active status to the OS drive in the Windows Disk Management utility or whatever program your using.

 

[m0h1t]

original drive C: which has the OS is still marked as active along with F:

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edit:

Bleh.. its boots just fine.

 

[andrew327]

Thats because you didn't marked a Logical/Partition as active instead you marked a different Disk/Physical as active which is normal. Also your BIOS was configured to boot from that HDD..........

 

[m0h1t]

ah.. okay

thnx