Hi there, I have had the message in the title when trying to format my E drive, I searched this on google and found your forum. I tried the option that was shown about changing the C drive to active, and doing startup repair 3 times, but this has not fixed the issue.
Please, any advice would be helpful, this is getting tiresome.
Thanks in advance
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Hi,
You can use the following steps to de-active a active partition:
1. Open Command Prompt.
2. Type: diskpart
3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list disk (This command will list all the disks that you have)
4. In the next prompt, type: select disk # ( # means the number of the disk which contain the wrong active partition )
5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list partition
6. Use the command: select partition # (# means the number of the partition that you want to mark as active)
7. Inactive the active partition with command: inactive
Then format.
I see you now have a active/boot flag on partition C. That is good.
Lets have a little test first.
Disconnect Drive 1 and 2. Then see if it will boot.
That will verify that Disc 0 C partition will boot.
If it boots hook the drives back up and remove the active flags from Disc 1 and 2 partitions D and E.
Then check if partitions of your choice on Disc 1 and/or 2 will format.
I restarted this evening as usual, and windows had me run a startup repair on E: drive, after the restart completed, I was able to format the drive, thanks for the help though, it was appreciated.
I'm trying to understand what happened.
Could you explain exactly the steps you took and tell us what was on partitions D & E on drives 1 & 2.
I'm trying to understand why Windows 7 would ask for a Startup Repair on E.
We need members to share how they fixed a problem so other could learn if they have the same problem.
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