Active partition

Partition on a hard disk drive that is set as the bootable partition and generally contains the operating system to be used on the computer. Only one partition on a computer can be set as an active or bootable partition on a hard disk drive.

Complete information about partitions and fdisk can be found on our fdisk page.

Also see: Hard disk drive definitions

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