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How can I unmark an external hard drive partition as being active?

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Mar 15, 202615997 views
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I accidentally marked my external hard drive partition as active in disk management. I meant to change the drive letter but hit the wrong button. Whoops. What are the consequences of having done that and is it possible for me to undo it? Below is a screenshot of my drives. My internal laptop HDD ha…

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The active partition is the one used when booting from that disk. This is why your system partition on your first disk is active. It doesn't affect anything else. If you still want to remove it, open a command prompt with Administrator privileges an…

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