Thanks for your info.
I am replying in case anyone wants to make an active partition not
active, that I found on the web. Here's how.
Open up a command prompt and type DISKPART.
Type LIST DISK
Type SELECT DISK n (where n is the number of the drive)
Type LIST PARTITION
Type SELECT PARTITION n (where n is the number of the active partition
you wish to make inactive)
Type INACTIVE
Type EXIT to exit DISKPART
Type EXIT again to exit the command prompt
Reboot
Jeff Wright wrote:
I have discovered that some of my external hard drives have been marked as
active when I converted them from FAT32 to NTSC. Each drive has one
partition only, and there are no OS on these drives.
Will having active partitions on multiple drive cause me a problem? If so,
is there a way to make them non-active?
Luckily, you didn't convert your disks to PAL. /jk
That won't be a problem, as long as none of these drives are marked as
the boot drive in your BIOS. If you have 2 partitions on the same
disk, your "C" drive for example, and the one marked active doesn't
have the OS installed on it, that will be a problem.
http://windowshelp.microsoft.com/Windows/en-US/Help/0260f433-b882-4d26-8d54-90f4e7cd1ffd1033.mspx
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