How Do You Create An Active Partition?
An active partition is a partition on your hard drive that is marked as the one the computer should boot from whenever the computer is started up. There can be only one active partition per drive, and if you create a partition and mark it active when it doesn’t have an operating system boot loader on it, it will cause your computer to stop booting your operating system. You can, however, create a partition and mark it active yourself, but be careful when doing so. Click “Start,” select “Control Panel,” open “System and Maintenance,” select “Administrative Tools” and then open “Computer Management.” Click “Disk Management,” right-click on an unallocated hard drive or portion of a hard drive and then select “New Partition.” Click “Default,” enter in a name for the partition, select “Quick Format” and then click “Finish.” The hard drive partition is created and formatted. Right-click on the partition that you created and click the “Mark Partition as Active” option. The partition is immedi
