Thank everyone for suggestions
Does anyone know how to disable the active partition for [D: drive] without
formating it? At this moment, I still can turn on / off my computer with no
problem. It seems Disk Management doesn't offer any option to disable this
active one.

Thank you very much for any suggestions
Eric

"Lil' Dave" wrote:

> "Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
> news:A17C20C0-1274-44E3-99EE-6E06D7C2F7AE@microsoft.com...
> > Does anyone know whay "Set partition to active" is about under Disk
> > Management?
> > I accidently select this option for [D: drive], hopefully, it does not
> > cause
> > any damage so far. I would like to know what this option is about and how
> > to
> > disable this option.
> > Does anyone have any suggestions?
> > Thanks in advance for any suggestions
> > Eric
>
> I would deny any use by any user to computer management, thus, disk
> management, period.
>
> The active bit, when set for a partition (only one can be set per physical
> hard drive at any given time and must be a primary partition), directs the
> system to look at that hard drive for boot files in a specific location
> specified by that partition. If those files do not exist or the pointer for
> boot files does not exist, the PC cannot continue.
>
> As with all versions of windows, the actual boot files are located on the C:
> partition. Not to be confused with the XP definition of windows boot
> partition. XP calls the boot partition where the boot files and boot
> partition are located, the system partition. If you're confused, so was I
> when I first saw this. I'm still confused about the descriptor "boot" and
> "system". Seems intentional to me.
> Dave
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