Solved Partition troubles

[Patricia5073]

VOLUME Layout Type File System Status

Simple Basic NTFS Healthy(System, Active, Primary Partition)100MB freeSpace
70%free Fault Tolerance No

C Simple Basic NTFS Healthy(Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition)
232.79GB Capacity-186.15GBFree Space- 80% free Fault Tolerance No

I typed it out right click is unresponsive so i cannot select to copy and paste. i have 2 primary partitions and read all this does this look right??? A Smily keeps popping up in this post where colon on C should be

 

[VistaKing]

Hi Patricia

The partitions look right to me

100mb partition is your System Reserved partition that windows 7 creates during installation
The other partition is your Windows partition for windows, programs and user files .

What is the exact issue ?

 

[Golden]

I agree - I don't see an obvious problem.

http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/274797-disk-management-post-screen-capture-image.html

 

[Patricia5073]

Thank you both for response, I wanted to make C:drive active and the small drive is active but it has System inside it. Help and support and computer management warn not to make a partition active unless it has what can load the computer and then to they are both primary and I have a dual drive but It has one operating system so I wondered if I should have two active partitions. There are places on line that write that that is strange and could be a hack- I just wondered if it is ok. This site is reliable. If I make my C drive active will my pc quit working? It does not say it has System in it. Is this a safe set up? Thank you again. My security essentials scan recently knocked of a seed abutor Trojan and another Gen brain Trojan weird stuff so I am just seeking assurance it is a safe setup or if not how to change it if it is ok that is good of course! Thanks again,

 

[Patricia5073]

ok well if no one says any possible problem with this i will mark as solved tomorrow and thanks i hope it is ok

 

[VistaKing]

You could only have one partition that is active .

If you want to get rid of the hidden partition ( System Reserved Partition )

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/71363-system-reserved-partition-delete.html

If you can't boot into Windows after doing the steps in the above tutorial then the tutorial below will fix that

:ar: http://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/681-startup-repair.html

 

[Mark Phelps]

Don't mess around with changing the active partition. It needs to be the partition used to BOOT Windows, not the C: partition, which actually contains the OS. IF you make the OS partition active, it's likely you won't boot anymore.