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The inactive partition tag covers discussions about marking a partition as inactive in Windows Disk Management, often to troubleshoot boot issues when multiple hard drives are present. Users describe scenarios where removing a secondary drive causes Windows to fail to boot, and they attempt to resolve this by marking the system partition as inactive. However, this can lead to errors like 'bootmgr is missing,' requiring the use of a Windows installation disk to mark the partition as active again. The tag focuses on the relationship between partition status and boot behavior, particularly in multi-drive setups.
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    Windows 7 Have two hard drives, when I remove one, windows will not boot

    Hello, i have two hard drives: A 250gb and a 1TB When I installed windows I chose the 1TB, but just left my other in there as it had some files I wanted on it. Now when I try to remove the 250gb drive, windows will not boot up. I tried marking the 250gb drive as inactive, but then during boot...
    • Jumpman6235
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    • active partition boot bootmgr disk management hard drive inactive partition installation storage issues troubleshooting windows
    • Replies: 3
    • Forum: Windows Help and Support
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