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Change active partition using a script?

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Peter Demeye #1 / 4	Change active partition using a script? Does anyone know of a way to change the active partition of a disk ? It has to be a script or an .exe, because it needs to come in a Windows2000 startup or shutdown script.
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 05:35:23 GMT

Torgeir Bakke #2 / 4	Change active partition using a script? Quote: > Does anyone know of a way to change the active partition of a disk ? > It has to be a script or an .exe, because it needs to come in a Windows2000 > startup or shutdown script. Hi Accessing hardware directly under Win2k? I would be very surprised if you found any utility that does this for you from inside Win2k. Why not use a boot manager that supports this instead? BootIt Next Generation ($29.95 USD) http://www.bootitng.com/bootitng.html Partition Boot Manager ($24.95 USD) http://www.sadevelopment.com/ BootMagic (part of Partition Magic, $69.95 USD) http://www.powerquest.com -- torgeir
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 06:21:00 GMT

Torgeir Bakke #3 / 4	Change active partition using a script? Quote: > Accessing hardware directly under Win2k? I would be very surprised if you found > any utility that does this for you from inside Win2k. Hi Hmm, I stand corrected. After some research I found that there exists one such utility ;-) And of course, it is PowerQuest that makes it, who else ;-) In the Partition Magic package, you will find Pqboot32.exe that can set active partition from command line. I have done extensive searching, but have not been able to find any other product that can do this. It doesn't seem like WMI is a solution either. The BootPartition property in the Win32_DiskPartition class is read-only. Win32_DiskPartition http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_diskpartitio... Anyway, here is an API reference if you want to make something yourself: Subject: Re: Set active partition programatically Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system Date: 2001-02-26 08:00:07 PST http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=%23n... <qoute> Which Ioctl are you using? You can use IOCTL_DISK_SET_PARTITION_INFO, with PartitionInformation->BootIndicator = TRUE to set a partition active. You need to clear BootIndicator for the other partition. </qoute> -- torgeir
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 09:39:22 GMT

Peter Demeye #4 / 4	Change active partition using a script? Thank you. Pqboot32.exe is all I need then. I tried the Win32API you mentioned, but I can't get it to work. Quote: > > Accessing hardware directly under Win2k? I would be very surprised if you found > > any utility that does this for you from inside Win2k. > Hi > Hmm, I stand corrected. After some research I found that there exists one such > utility ;-) And of course, it is PowerQuest that makes it, who else ;-) In the > Partition Magic package, you will find Pqboot32.exe that can set active partition > from command line. I have done extensive searching, but have not been able to find > any other product that can do this. > It doesn't seem like WMI is a solution either. The BootPartition property in the > Win32_DiskPartition class is read-only. > Win32_DiskPartition > http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/en-us/wmisdk/wmi/win32_diskpartitio... > Anyway, here is an API reference if you want to make something yourself: > Subject: Re: Set active partition programatically > Newsgroups: microsoft.public.win2000.file_system > Date: 2001-02-26 08:00:07 PST http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&selm=%23n... HA.1880%40tkmsftngp03 Quote: > <qoute> > Which Ioctl are you using? > You can use IOCTL_DISK_SET_PARTITION_INFO, with PartitionInformation->BootIndicator - Hide quoted text - - Show quoted text - Quote: > = TRUE to set a partition active. You need to clear BootIndicator for the other > partition. > </qoute> > -- > torgeir
Thu, 03 Feb 2005 17:40:31 GMT

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