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Too Many Active Partitions / Drives?

Discussion in 'PC Hardware' started by James Martin, 2018/12/23.

  1. 2018/12/23
    James Martin

    James Martin Geek Member Thread Starter

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    I just noticed in Computer Management that both of my harddrives are list as active.

    Disk 0 has three partitions (C,D,E), and and only C is listed as active (D&E are listed as Logical drives). But my newer 1 TB drive (disk 1) is listed as active too.

    Should I make disk 1 disk inactive, or does it matter? It is only used for storage and backups.
     
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  2. 2018/12/24
    Christer

    Christer Geek Member Staff

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    Only the system drive/partition from which the system is booted needs to be set as active.
     
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  4. 2018/12/24
    Bill

    Bill SuperGeek WindowsBBS Team Member

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    Do they both work? Is it broken? If it ain't broke, don't fix it!
     
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  5. 2018/12/27
    James Martin

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    Not sure how disk 1 became active, but I noticed its active status in computer management while trying to figure out why a flash drive would not boot with backup media installed.
     
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