Solved How to make a secondary hard drive NOT Active?

[glennc]

Hello,
I would like to say I inadvertently made by secondary hard drive active.. It was not. Is there a way to make it not active? As it is listed in the BIOS as the non-boot drive, there doesn't appear to be a conflict at this time. But I would like to correct it if possible. Thanks for all assistance.
Glenn

 

[DavidE]

Removing the Active Flag from a Partition
(on a drive that's not used as a boot drive)

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html


Make sure you choose the correct Disk / Partition !

Open an elevated command prompt in Windows:
1. Click Start Orb
2. In search box, type cmd
3. Right-click on cmd.exe and choose 'Run as Administrator'

In the elevated command prompt type in the following commands:

Diskpart
LIST DISK
SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the HDD in question)
LIST PARTITION
SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the active partition you wish to make inactive)
INACTIVE
EXIT
EXIT

 

[glennc]

Yay! Thank you DavidW7ncus! Worked perfectly!
Glenn

 

[DavidE]

You're welcome, and glad you got it sorted.
Thanks to Shawn (Brink) for the Tutorial link!

 

[glennc]

Absolutely: Thanks to Shawn and the other's who have given their time to help!
Sincerely
Glenn