Solved Disk & Partitions question

I was looking at the Disk Management on my PC (Vista Home Premium 32 SP2), and I was worrying about something I discovered.

I have 6 physical disks, all NTFS. One, disk Disk 4 is split into 2 logical disks, the first of which is my Boot C Drive.

The C drive shows a Status of "Healthy, Boot, Page File, Crash Dump, Primary Partition"

All other physical and the one logical drive show Status as "Primary Partition". In addition, Disk0 Named as Drive "E" is also shown as "Active."

I know the basics, but little more, but I have been reading that I should only have one "Active" partition (I have no multi-boots set-up).

I have also read that there should only be one "Primary partition" although this does seem to relate to older FAT systems. I haven't been able to find more recent info.

So two questions

a) Is it OK to have more than one Active partition


b) Is it OK to have Multiple Primary Partiitions.


Thanks

re: Disk & Partitions question

Hello bonalymac.



You can have as many primarys as needed, they're the best to have anyway; it's best to only have one marked as active, you can use the program in the tutorial at the link below to boot and mark E: as non-active, if you have more than one 'active' and you ever have to do a startup repair it'll confuse things.


Partition Wizard : Use the Bootable CD

re: Disk & Partitions question

Thanks. Pleased to see that the "Primary Partitions" thing is not an issue. I'll read the other doc to see about removing the "active". I did have a glance at it, but it seems to need a bit more reading before I find the relevant bit.

Thanks again

re: Disk & Partitions question

Easier than I had feared. I assumed re-booting from set-up disc, but the download was a windows prog, marked my disk as inactive, then applied, took seconds.

I was changing my images disk, and so it was already well backed up, but no issues with conversion. Thanks very much for your help, much appreciated

re: Disk & Partitions question

Hello again bonalymac.





I'm glad I could be a help, thanks for the update.