Re: New build - Active partition query

Each and every disk can be assigned one active partition and most of the time each and every disk does have an active partition. If you have three hard disks in your computer you can have three active partitions and that doesn't make any difference whatsoever to the operating system, the active partition on which the operating system booted from will be labeled as the System partition and the other active partitions will simply be shown as active.

John

rbelNews wrote:
New PC build, new SATA drive with Win XP Home SP2.

Just added an IDE drive from an older PC and Disk Management is showing as disk 0 and the first partition of this as a logical drive and *active* (there is no system or data on it).

The SATA drive with the system loaded is now shown as disk 1 (was disk 0) and the C partition as healthy (system).

This system is booting OK, although pausing for confirmation of the IDE disk for some reason, but I would have thought the C partition on the SATA drive should be the active one but I cannot find a way of 'inactivating' the current active partition.

Grateful for any advice.

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