Setting Active Partition - ACRONIS PARTITIONEXPERT 2003 User Manual

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3.
By clicking OK in the Unhide Partition window, you add the pending opera-
tion to partition unhiding (your actions may only undo or modify an exist-
ing operation, See 2.4.5 «Modifying pending operations»).
Unhide partition window
The partition Hid label will disappear from the Flags field.
Note that Advanced
select a hidden partition from the list. Partition context menu changes the same.
If you unhidden the only primary partition on a disk, it will be set active.
Hiding a partition in Windows 95/98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to
other partitions. As a result, some shortcuts might stop working. The detailed discus-
sion of partition letter assignment rules for various operating systems are described
in 3.1 «Creating A New Partition».
4.2.5

Setting active partition

If you have several primary partitions, you must specify one to boot from. For
this you can set a partition active. A disk can have only one active partition.
If you need to set an active partition:
1.
Select primary partition to set active from the list in Acronis
PartitionExpert main window,
2.
Execute operation of setting active partition by selecting Disk
vanced
by clicking
lecting it from partition or the graphical representation context menu),
Set Active Partition
Unhide sidebar item is changed to Advanced
Set Active or a similar item in the Advanced sidebar list, or
Set the selected partition as active on the toolbar (or se-
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