• SQL_Quest-825434 (12/30/2009)


    What does Mark as Active partition do ? (disk management -> point to the drive and rt click --> mark partition as active)

    Makes that the boot partition, ie the one that the computer will look for an OS on when it boots. Don't fiddle with it.

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