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i am trying to set an active partition but my computer shows 7 partitions. How do I know what one to set as active?
i am trying to set an active partition but my computer shows 7 partitions. How do I know what one to set as active?
if you use this tutorial ... Screenshots and Files - Upload and Post in Ten Forums - Windows 10 Forums to post a screen shot of your partition layout in Disk manager or other application (expand as far as possible or take multiple screen shots so that all information is available)
Welcome to the forum. Active means it's the one it boots from and has the system files most often in windows it's called system reserved very small 120meg post a screenshot of disk manager if in doubt
Most but not all Windows have a System Reserved partition - mark that Active. If no SysRes, then mark partition containing Windows Active.
I tried to make the "reserved" partition active and it says the selected disk is not a fixed MBR disk??
I am simply trying to reset my computer but when I try it says "a required drive partition is missing". Maybe I'm going about this the wrong way.
As Barman asked earlier, are you able to post a pic of your hard-drive structure as given by Disk Management?
I think this is what was asked for
You have a GPT partitioned disk booting from UEFI. It won't have an active partition. The active partition is for MBR partitioned disks booting from legacy BIOS. The required partition missing is the recovery partition which is not set properly in the Windows Recovery Environment.
Right click on the start icon, select the Command Prompt (Admin). In the elevated command prompt window that opens, run:
reagentc /info
You should get a result like:
Post your results here and we can help more.Code:C:\WINDOWS\system32>reagentc /info Windows Recovery Environment (Windows RE) and system reset configuration Information: Windows RE status: Enabled Windows RE location: \\?\GLOBALROOT\device\harddisk0\partition1\Recovery\WindowsRE Boot Configuration Data (BCD) identifier: fcaab80d-8717-11e6-843d-aa73efa5da58 Recovery image location: Recovery image index: 0 Custom image location: Custom image index: 0 REAGENTC.EXE: Operation Successful.