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Puzzling Active partition situation
I've got a Win7 Ultimate, 32bit installation that was upgraded from Vista Business 32bit. Everything is working pretty well, with the exception that the machine doesn't reliably go into hibernation by itself - though I can send it there via command line, and it recovers from hibernation with no problem.
So I was just poking around under the hood, and to my surprise I find that the C: drive is marked not only Boot, but Active as well. The 63MB system reserve is marked OEM partition.
I wonder if I assigned the wrong partition type to SR, and that's why it's not being used as the Active partition. And since SR handles hibernation chores, I wonder if there's an effect there as well.
Would it pay to reassign SR to a different partition type, and if so which type, and make it Active?