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May 7th, 2008 19:00
What does Active Partition mean?
I just re-formatted Drive 4 on my xps700 after recovering it from accidentally deleting my partition...long story...
Here's my set up:
C: 2 drives in RAID 1 - Healthy (System)
F: Seagate 320 - Healthy (Active)
G: Samsung 500 - Healthy <--the drive in question
I'm running XP, do I need to make the "partition" active as well...what does it mean anyway?
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Ryanh6178
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May 7th, 2008 20:00
Hi Jbnc30,
Make it a bootable partition. It doesn't hurt to allow it to be. It's up to you.
Ryanh6178
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May 7th, 2008 20:00
You can make it active later if you want.
jbnc30
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May 7th, 2008 20:00
can i change it at any time?
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May 7th, 2008 21:00
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May 7th, 2008 21:00
An active partition [aka primary partition] on a hard drive, typically contains and boots the operating system.
Bev.
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