For Vista i think the boot files were in the operating system partition so this made easier for users to make mistakes and malwares to do damage. There is also a hidden 100mb/350mb NTFS partition (for instance if you install windwos 7, 8.) namely boot partition storing boot files of your operating system, this partition is set to be active partition by default. A primary partition is in which an Operating System can be installed. Or your Macrium Reflect did that and set that partition as possible bootable so set Active Flag? If you have several physical hard disks on your computer, you can mark a partition as active on each disk, but only the active partition on the first hard disk detected by your BIOS will start up the PC.Įach hard drive also has one of its possible 4 partitions flagged as an active partition. Are you having problems when plugging your external hard drive to Windows pc with the partition marked as active?ĭid you made the two partitions on the external hard drive yourself and marked one of them as active before using Macrium Reflect.
