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Acadia
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 Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:17 pm |
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Was just playing around today (lots of free time these days) and went into my Disk Management of Win10 Pro, did not want to do anything, just look.
Naturally, I found my c:drive was (Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition). All my other drives were (Primary Partition) except for one. One of my external drives was marked (Active, Primary Partition). Why was this one marked Active? I thought the c:drive was supposed to be Active. I have never had any problems booting this thing, and I have never had another operating system installed, only the original Win10.
Thanks, Bill
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jaylach
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:42 pm |
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It seems that you can have more than one active drive or even none. My main system has five internal drives and none are designated as active.
I wouldn't worry about your external showing as active. It is probably just how the drive was initially setup.
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Posted: Thu Apr 23, 2020 1:46 pm |
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If you have an EFI partition, I believe this is the active one on your main drive even though it doesn't say active. My main drive has three partitions Recovery, EFI, and the main C: partition, none say active. Your external drive may have been used in another machine at one time and been the main drive so that's why it would have the active marking. If all is working properly it is nothing to worry about, you can always use DISKPART to turn off the active marking, but its really not needed to do if all is working.
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Acadia
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 3:40 am |
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Jay and dvair, thanks much.
Bill
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 4:35 am |
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Posted: Fri Apr 24, 2020 8:49 am |
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None of my drives show as Active, just had a look and in this laptop I have an SSD drive and a normal HD and they all just show as Status Healthy.
This is on an HP Envy 2 in 1 laptop running Windows 10 Home version 2004 with no problems.
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