Active (Standard 7 Package Reference)
7/8/2014
Active specifies whether to mark the partition as active. On a BIOS-based system, the active partition is the partition the system will boot to. This partition must be a primary partition.
On a Unified Extensible Firmware Interface (UEFI)-based system, this setting is not used. The system will always boot to the EFI System Partition (ESP). If Active is set for this partition type, it is ignored.
Only one active partition can be set on a hard disk. If an active partition already exists on the disk when this setting is changed to true, the existing active setting is removed and the selected partition is marked as active.
Only primary partitions can be marked as active. If Active is set for other partition types, the setting is ignored.
Values
true |
Marks the partition as active. |
false |
Does not mark the partition as active. |