Can we boot the system without active c drive ?

If your operating system is on another drive, then you can change the boot drive in the BIOS to that drive. If you're asking if you can boot into your operating system that is located on your C drive without the C drive being active, then no, you can't.

Can we boot the system without active c drive ?
You can boot the system with a bootable CD-ROM called knoppix


http://www.knoppix.net/





You can also use a BartPE CD which that can contain many useful utilities that can recover you from a system failure.


http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
Reply:yes.. you should have the image of the OS in your HDD.. and then you shoud boot using the FDD
Reply:no u cannot boot ur system without active c drive, by default it is active, u have to make it as a active patition, then it will boot.
Reply:it depends on the operating system that u are using.


if windows 98, yes u can.





in windows xp u can use bootable cd for reparing or reinstalling..





or from pen drives that contain bootable system files
Reply:Yes you can , a system can be booted in anyways you want , but you need to have advanced knowledge of pcs .





The only thing that makes your system boot is windows , and the default installtion of windows occurs in drive c on most pc's





You can change the installation disk for windows and put it on other drive and boot the system





You can also boot the system from your network or from a disk .. try hitting f2 and go into your bios to see the boot options
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For that you should use the boot floppy. Using a boot floppy you could access the hard disk and its data.





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