Solved Remove Active Drive Status

[seekermeister]

While changing the drive letter on a storage drive, my mouse slipped and marked it active. I have gone through the context menu and drive properties, but haven't found the means to remove that...how is it done?

 

[pbcopter]

The only way I know to do it is with a third party partition manager.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Hello mate.


From an elevated command window use the outline in Option Two #2 to mark it inactive.

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[seekermeister]

The only way I know to do it is with a third party partition manager.

I like this idea, better than BFK's, simply because I dislike messing with the command prompt, but I may have to do it anyway. I have a license for Acronis DDS 11, but never installed it on the computer where it is needed. So I tried to do so, but on the first try, it popped an error, saying that it wasn't designed for that OS, which is not true, because I'm running it on W7 on this computer.

On the second attempt to install it, it didn't pop that error, but when I entered the serial and went to the next window, it asked for the serial for the "old" version, but there is not, nor has there even been a previous version installed on that machine.

I posted a question about this on the Acronis forum, but from past experience, I don't expect a response soon enough to deal with this problem.

The only other disk management program that I have is Paragon, but the first and last time that I tried to used that, it messed things up, so I shall not try that again.

It appears that, like it or not, I'm going to have to use BFK's suggestion, unless someone understands what is happening with DDS 11?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Here is the link for the Partition Wizard Bootable Disk ISO file, this will do it.

Partition Wizard Free Bootable CD



Using the command window takes about 2 seconds.

 

[seekermeister]

Here is the link for the Partition Wizard Bootable Disk ISO file, this will do it.

Partition Wizard Free Bootable CD



Using the command window takes about 2 seconds.

Thanks. Partition Wizard completely escaped my mind, until you mentioned it. I already have the disk, and did boot to it, but I find nothing there to either add or remove the active status. I guess that I will have to go with your first suggestion.

 

[Sardonicus]

Using PW, right click on the selected disk or partition and select Modify.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

You have to right click to highlight/select the target partition and click Modify, Set Inactive.

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[seekermeister]

Okay, I found the options in the context menu, but strangely the one for setting it inactive was grayed out, while the one to set it active was available. I went ahead and booted back into Windows, and checked again in Disk Management, and it still shows it as being active. I wonder why the two utilities disagree?

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Is it all a single HDD or more than one.

 

[seekermeister]

If you are referring to the rig in general, it has multiple drives. The drive in question is all a single partition, used only for storage.

 

[seekermeister]

I know that it is a pity that anyone be so dependent on easy GUI programs, but never the less, I am. I finally got DDS 11 installed, and getting rid of the active flag only took a couple of clicks. That is the way that I like things.

 

[Bare Foot Kid]

Well glad to see you got it sorted and thanks for the update.

 

[pbcopter]

I usually run DDS 11 from a CD (ISO) rather than install. It eliminates the install issues.

 

[seekermeister]

Are you talking to yourself, or is that your way of complaining about a lack of credit given you? If the latter, then I will say that despite the fact that I didn't use your precise instructions, you did put me on the right track. Thanks.

 

[SIW2]

 

[seekermeister]

The reason that you are confused, is because the post that I was replying to was deleted.

 

[SIW2]

Oh I see