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   Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

   I have booted the C partition and yet it's not active.
   What's going on?
   
   

    

   Eldon, Apr 22, 2018

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   plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

   Same here - booted C and am in Win 7, yet D is showing as active.
   

    

   plodr, Apr 22, 2018

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   Earthling Interplanetary Geek

   The Active partition is where the Windows boot file bootmgr is located. It's not necessarily where the system files are - depends on how you set the system up.

    

   Earthling, Apr 22, 2018

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   Eldon Major Geek Extraordinaire

   Thanks.
   I did notice bootmgr is on the D partition.

    

   Eldon, Apr 22, 2018

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   plodr MajorGeek Super Extraordinaire Moderator Staff Member

   Thanks. That is one of the "new" things I'll be learning today.
   
   I don't dual boot any more. I did it because I didn't want to lose XP and I had a MS Win 7 DVD so I could explore Win 7 before I actually was forced to use it. I was never able to create a USB boot stick so I decided I had to dual boot.

    

   plodr, Apr 23, 2018

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