Mark your first partition (drive C:) active.


"Eric" <Eric@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
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> 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
>>
>>
>>