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Two Active Partitions - No errors yet, but is this a problem?
My new laptop (Win7 Pro SP1 64 bit) is configured as follows:
- Drive 1 (C) is a single partition SSD Drive that contains the Operating System and other programs
(I don't see any sign of a separate 100MB System Partition, so I think all the boot files are included in this C partition)
- Drive 0 is an HDD partitioned into 3 partitions (E, F, M), intended as data partitions
I have attached a screen shot of my current Disk Management setup to illustrate.
The SSD drive is Disk 1 and the HDD is Disk 0 - and the machine came that way from the manufacturer, so I plan to leave it that way unless there is some compelling reason to try to get my SSD drive to be Drive 0.
Here's my issue:
Somehow, both the C drive and the E partition are marked Active
- my guess is that the E partition is marked Active because it contains the partition table for the HDD. (It has NEVER had an operating system installed on it, nor any other program files, but it shows 408MB used)
Do I need to mark the E partition as Inactive?
I've read several threads - some say yes I need to change this and others say no it's not a problem. Still others say it might be a problem if I have to repair/restore my machine. Since I know almost nothing about this, I would really like to get advice from people who understand this stuff.
I have also read the Mark Active/Mark Inactive tutorials elsewhere in this forum, so I have an idea of what it will take if I do need to do it
Partition - Mark as Inactive
So - recommendations anyone?