Hello computer literate people.
Can anyone please tell me why my C: drive does not say it is "active".
I have a Dell laptop with a 250GB HDD that can be seen here as disk 0.
A couple of questions:
1) Why do i have a FAT32 partition of 3.30GB that says "unknown partition". Should it also be NTFS and does it state as "unknown" because i haven't formatted it properly? I am running XP and a friend reckons Dell do some weird thing to their installation disks. I am happy to format this disk again and keep 25GB for the C: drive and split the balance into "data1" and "data2".
2) Why does my C: drive say "System" and not "Active" after the word "Healthy"? Is this correct?
3) I right clicked the "Z" and "H" partitions and selected "Make partition as active" cos i was hoping it would deselect it and eventually make the C: active. Now i can't get rid of the "Active" word in brackets on these 2 drives. Wil this affect my computer's ability to boot up properly?
4) If i want a hard drive just for storage like the "X" drive called that is currently being formatted, do i make it an "extended partition" or "logical drive"? I believe the "primary partition" option should only be used for the C: drive where the OS is kept?
Thanks for any assistance with this. I'm worried if i turn off my PC, i won't be able to boot it back up again
Can anyone please tell me why my C: drive does not say it is "active".
I have a Dell laptop with a 250GB HDD that can be seen here as disk 0.
A couple of questions:
1) Why do i have a FAT32 partition of 3.30GB that says "unknown partition". Should it also be NTFS and does it state as "unknown" because i haven't formatted it properly? I am running XP and a friend reckons Dell do some weird thing to their installation disks. I am happy to format this disk again and keep 25GB for the C: drive and split the balance into "data1" and "data2".
2) Why does my C: drive say "System" and not "Active" after the word "Healthy"? Is this correct?
3) I right clicked the "Z" and "H" partitions and selected "Make partition as active" cos i was hoping it would deselect it and eventually make the C: active. Now i can't get rid of the "Active" word in brackets on these 2 drives. Wil this affect my computer's ability to boot up properly?
4) If i want a hard drive just for storage like the "X" drive called that is currently being formatted, do i make it an "extended partition" or "logical drive"? I believe the "primary partition" option should only be used for the C: drive where the OS is kept?
Thanks for any assistance with this. I'm worried if i turn off my PC, i won't be able to boot it back up again