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Hi again, I got a call from Sandisk today about a separate issue..they were just confirming a question I'd asked about their USB 3.0 drives and if they are 100% backwards compatible with USB 2.0 ports. They confirmed they are.
During the conversation I told him I'd recently reset a USB flash drive back to factory settings and quoted the commands that you gave me listed above that I'd used ( Actually I used Diskpart down to the "convert MBR" command and completed the task in Disk Management (create a new simple volume, full format to fat32 etc).
He said that Sandisk ship their flash drives from the factory with an Active partition. He also said that in order for it to work correctly all the commands are perfect but I should type in "Active".
I told him that I was using a 2015 UEFI bootable laptop not a Legacy BIOS PC. He said that doesn't matter the flash drive should still have an Active partition. He asked me to look at the flash drive in Disk Management. I confirmed it said it had a Healthy partition but it didn't say it was Active beside where it said it was Healthy. I also said that a right click on the drive showed a Mark Partition as Active option which isn't selectable..its greyed out. I haven't seen it shown as selectable on any of my flash drives. He didn't have any idea at all why the Mark Partition as Active option was greyed out. Can you shed any light on that?
He said it seems like its set up correctly but he doesn't understand how without me having entered the "Active" command in Diskpart. He said that somehow Disk Management must have made it Active even though it doesnt state that it is Active on the partition?
You seem very knowledgeable on this subject so I wondered if you might be able to explain it to me