Inactive Partition

[nulke]

I have the following setup with Windows ME. I'm using RAID 0 (C:)utilizing primary ide 3 and primary ide 4 of my KR7 motherboard. I have another drive on ide primary ide 1 (D:). The system boots from the RAID controller. The drive on ide 1 has the primary partition set to active, but has no operating system on it. I want to add another larger capacity drive to primary ide 1 and place the previous drive on primary ide 2. My question is...

Can I use Partiton Magic to make the primary partition of the original disk on ide 1 to inactive before moving it to primary ide 2.

I'm hoping I can do this without losing any data and pave the way, to making primary partition on new drive active.

I don't want to hide any drives or partitions.

Thanks in advance,

nulke

[Blane]

First create a startup disk. Then install all your drives. Reboot the computer from the startup disk and use fdisk to verify and make your partition inactive.

[scarecrow]

You run the risk of losing all your data by changing the partition status- actually it's much more dangerous that changing/converting the type. Also have in mind that Windows always want to put the loader at the first harddisk MBR.

[nulke]

Thanks for all replies. I have decided to place the newer disk on primary ide 2. I'm going to install xp on the new disk and allow it to configure whatever it needs.