diskpart in Recovery Console doesn't allow activation of partition

Dear all,

My XP PC is not booting ("no bootable device" or something similar). I would
like to found out which partition is considered as active since I suspect
there is no active partition at the moment due to an error I made on the Disk
Management Console before rebooting. However, using the Recovery Console from
the XP disk, the utility diskpart does not seem to allow anything more than
the creation and deletion of new partitions. It seems to have a very
different functionality to the utility accessible from Windows. Is there any
other way therefore to check which partition is active?

Thanks,

Gaby

Commands to Set Focus: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415/en-us#
select disk, select partition, set active
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"Gaby" <Gaby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Dear all,
>
> My XP PC is not booting ("no bootable device" or something similar). I
> would
> like to found out which partition is considered as active since I suspect
> there is no active partition at the moment due to an error I made on the
> Disk
> Management Console before rebooting. However, using the Recovery Console
> from
> the XP disk, the utility diskpart does not seem to allow anything more
> than
> the creation and deletion of new partitions. It seems to have a very
> different functionality to the utility accessible from Windows. Is there
> any
> other way therefore to check which partition is active?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gaby

Thanks for the answer but the diskpart utility in the Recovery Console does
not have the same functionality and only seems to allow creation and deletion
of partitions. There seems to be no command line functionality other than
that.

Thanks,

Gaby

"Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:

>
> Commands to Set Focus: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415/en-us#
> select disk, select partition, set active
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> "Gaby" <Gaby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:3B8B0E26-73F4-4959-B92A-9F05A9B3F097@microsoft.com...
> > Dear all,
> >
> > My XP PC is not booting ("no bootable device" or something similar). I
> > would
> > like to found out which partition is considered as active since I suspect
> > there is no active partition at the moment due to an error I made on the
> > Disk
> > Management Console before rebooting. However, using the Recovery Console
> > from
> > the XP disk, the utility diskpart does not seem to allow anything more
> > than
> > the creation and deletion of new partitions. It seems to have a very
> > different functionality to the utility accessible from Windows. Is there
> > any
> > other way therefore to check which partition is active?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Gaby
>

OK, I didn't realize the recovery console version was deficit. I would boot
to a dos floppy, or CD, and use the Fdisk utility to set an active
partition.

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"Gaby" <Gaby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> Thanks for the answer but the diskpart utility in the Recovery Console
> does
> not have the same functionality and only seems to allow creation and
> deletion
> of partitions. There seems to be no command line functionality other than
> that.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Gaby
>
> "Mark L. Ferguson" wrote:
>
>>
>> Commands to Set Focus: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/300415/en-us#
>> select disk, select partition, set active
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>> Mark L. Ferguson
>> .
>>
>> "Gaby" <Gaby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
>> news:3B8B0E26-73F4-4959-B92A-9F05A9B3F097@microsoft.com...
>> > Dear all,
>> >
>> > My XP PC is not booting ("no bootable device" or something similar). I
>> > would
>> > like to found out which partition is considered as active since I
>> > suspect
>> > there is no active partition at the moment due to an error I made on
>> > the
>> > Disk
>> > Management Console before rebooting. However, using the Recovery
>> > Console
>> > from
>> > the XP disk, the utility diskpart does not seem to allow anything more
>> > than
>> > the creation and deletion of new partitions. It seems to have a very
>> > different functionality to the utility accessible from Windows. Is
>> > there
>> > any
>> > other way therefore to check which partition is active?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Gaby
>>

On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 21:56:00 -0700, Gaby <Gaby@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:

>Dear all,
>
>My XP PC is not booting ("no bootable device" or something similar). I would
>like to found out which partition is considered as active since I suspect
>there is no active partition at the moment due to an error I made on the Disk
>Management Console before rebooting. However, using the Recovery Console from
>the XP disk, the utility diskpart does not seem to allow anything more than
>the creation and deletion of new partitions. It seems to have a very
>different functionality to the utility accessible from Windows. Is there any
>other way therefore to check which partition is active?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Gaby

Yes.................. Fdisk