Make an Active drive non-active


  1. dwarfer66
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    Make an Active drive non-active


    I had an external HDD put in as an external HDD, but for some reason it is marked as active (when connected with my normal HDDs windows will not boot), can I make it inactive WITHOUT loosing all the data (It has only my movie collection ripped from DVD on it) nothing else. I only found out the other day when I replaced my PSU with a new one, and windows would not boot until I disconnected it. (after having it connected without a problem for about 2 years).
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  3. ignatzatsonic
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    In a standard Windows PC, the active partition would be C, or System Reserved if you have that partition. Do you have both of those partitions and is either of them marked "active"?

    The active flag has nothing to do with data.

    A screen shot of Windows Disk Management would help.
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  4. dwarfer66
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    I cannot boot into windows with that drive connected. I will be buying an external enclosure soon, so I can plug it in when windows boots, and remove the active flag, but what I want to know is will I lose my data if I do?
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  6. ignatzatsonic
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    dwarfer66 said:
    what I want to know is will I lose my data if I do?
    No.
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  7. dwarfer66
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    Cheers mate, just got to get the money know to buy the enclosure.
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