[NFBCS] Accessible way to mark partition as active outside of windows?

[Bryan Schulz]

Hi,

Cmd = the windows command prompt (old manual dos prompt c:\)
You might end up there with f12 or read the boot screen.
Bryan


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Subject: Re: [NFBCS] Accessible way to mark partition as active outside of
windows?

Hi, yes that is what I used to mark the partition as inactive. How would I
access disk part from outside of windows? Thank you.

On 5/13/20, Bryan Schulz via NFBCS <nfbcs at nfbnet.org> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Don't remember the flags but diskpart from cmd may save you.
> Bryan
>
>
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> Subject: [NFBCS] Accessible way to mark partition as active outside of 
> windows?
>
> Hi all, so I have a duel boot system running windows 7 and Windows XP.
> Yes yes I know, old lol. But I was going to delete my windows xp 
> partition and install windows 7 and upgrade to Windows 10. That way I 
> will have windows 7 for older applications if needed. So I went and 
> marked windows xp as inactive so that I could delete this partition.
> Windows 7 was also marked as active so figured it would just boot to 
> windows
> 7 automaticly. But now of course it says can't find operating system. Ug.
> So
> what program can I use that may be accessible for me to mark the 
> partition as active again? I did not mess with the windows 7 partition 
> so it should still be set to active. Bart PE maybe? Or any other easy 
> to use things that are accessible? Thank you.
>
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