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Skriven 2012-04-24 16:58:46 av Mr. G
Ärende: Re: Boot Manager & XP
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From: "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com>

On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 16:51:58 UTC, "Mr. G" <nospam@yahoo.com> wrote:

> On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 15:31:49 UTC, "PaulRS" <prschmi@Zfrontier.com> wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 08:17:01 UTC, "Alex Taylor" 
> > <mail.me@reply.to.address> wrote:
> > 
> > > On Tue, 24 Apr 2012 07:01:43 UTC, Paul <paulrs@Zfoxinternet.net> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > I have an OS2 Laptop with OS2 Boot Manager and have installed Win XP. 
> > > > Of course it deactivated BM.  Can I reactivate BM without messing up
XP? 
> > > >   I know XP has it's own Boot Manager and this is different from the 
> > > > Win2000 formerly installed on that partition.  With Win2000, 
> > > > reactivating worked fine.
> > > 
> > > Yes, but do it from Windows, not from OS/2!
> > > 
> > > Go into the Windows "Logical Disk Manager" (available under the Manage
> > > utility which IIRC you can get to by right-clicking My Computer).
> > > 
> > > Locate the Boot Manager partition and select to set it active.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > If you do it this way, Windows will correctly update its BOOT.INI file
> > > to accomodate altered partition numbering.  If you don't do it this way,
> > > Windows will probably not be able to boot until you use DFSee or
something
> > > similar to repair the BOOT.INI file.
> > > 
> > 
> > OK, I go to  Computer Management->Storage->Disk Management.  All the 
> > partitions are displayed.  Boot Manager is listed first and it says: 
> > Healthy (OS2 Boot Partion).  A Right Click on it ONLY ALLOWS "Delete 
> > Partition."  The "Mark Partition as Active" is greyed out.  
> > Suggestions . . . .
> > 
> >  Paul
> 
> a) You should be able to do it from DFSee without having
>     to do a fix boot.ini
> 
> b) insert XP install CD, go into fdisk and activate from there.
>     Remember to remove CD before reboot.
> 
> c) insert OS/2 install CD; same action as b) except it will be LVM

Those are OR choices, pick one.
Sorry for any confusion

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