Which partition should be active?

DonnyTechMaster · Feb 6, 2014

Hi, I recently cloned my old 160GB HDD to my new 1TB HDD and I noticed that my C: drive says that it has boot sectors in it. I also have a system reserved partition. What I want to know is: which one of the two partitions should I have marked as active? I marked system reserved as active, but now I'm not sure if that is right.

Here is a picture of my disk management screen: https://www.dropbox.com/s/isx8adj6h60ods8/Capture.JPG

maxwellmelon · Feb 6, 2014

you have it right the small system should be active one as you show it in your pic

just wondering how come its the second partition though. it should have been the first one with the main being the second. copy order wrong? I don't know if you would be able to expand your primary partititon to fill up the rest of the space the way it is.

DonnyTechMaster · Feb 6, 2014

maxwellmelon :

It just got a bit messed up after I cloned it. I'm going to fix it later in EaseUS I just needed to know which partition to have active before i made any changes.

maxwellmelon · Feb 6, 2014

DonnyTechMaster :

ok it should be the small one like I said.

just some tips if you didn't know already:: best idea before deleting or modifying your old hard drive is to disconnect your old drive completely and make sure the ssd boots and runs correctly. if it doesn't then you can plug your old drive back in and fix any issues. after that's done then make sure your ssd is set as boot device and best idea is to make sure it is pluged into the first sata port. (most bios will boot off the first hard drive it finds so making this swap will automatically change the boot order to correct)

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