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When the Windows bootmanager ( or the Win-7/8 System Reserved partition) has separated boot-files and operating system to different partitions then the System and Boot partitions may be different, which by consequence means that dependent Boot partitions won't have their own boot-files and so will forever be reliant on their System partition. When the Windows bootmanager has not been configured for use then an operating system will typically be both the System and Boot partition, because the boot files will be on the same partition as the operating system. It has also become the Boot partition, and this is our main clue that this is now the partition and the operating system that we are booted into.

Introduction to GPT and UEFIįor a primer and details on how to start the Disk Management tool please refer to the first article in this series.Īs you can see in f ig:4 we have rebooted into the Vista operating system on the first partition and it is indeed now both the Active and the System partition. The new GUID Partition Table ( GPT) that we can now use on hard drives instead of the classic MBR (or msdos) style of partitioning uses a different method of identifying boot partitions and so the Active status flag has no relevance or use on GPT styled hard drives. If we haven’t yet persuaded you to work on your ability to recover a broken system then we make no apologies for our continued nagging on the subject.Īrm Yourself With a Few Basic Recovery Tools. Having a few basic recovery tools to hand is in our opinion a precondition of playing with any working system that you would like to be able to use again.

To get an understanding of the Active partition and the boot process that it is a part of we recommend that you start with the first page in our series of boot sequence guides.