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Deactivate a Active HDD

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1. Open Command Prompt.

2. Type: diskpart

3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list disk (This command will list all the disks that you have)

4. In the next prompt, type: select disk # ( # means the number of the disk which contain the wrong active partition )

5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list partition

6. Use the command: select partition # (# means the number of the partition that you want to mark as active)

7. Inactive the active partition with command: inactive

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I was reassigning Drive letters and accidentally click 'mark as active' on my Games HDD which doesn't have an OS on it and now every time I boot is says 'bootmgr is missing' and after about an hour of playing around I now have it booted into Windows again so I need to remove my 'G:' HDD as a Active HDD because it happens every time I boot my PC now.

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FIXED

1. Open Command Prompt.

2. Type: diskpart

3. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list disk (This command will list all the disks that you have)

4. In the next prompt, type: select disk # ( # means the number of the disk which contain the wrong active partition )

5. At the DISKPART prompt, type: list partition

6. Use the command: select partition # (# means the number of the partition that you want to mark as active)

7. Inactive the active partition with command: inactive

AMD FX 6350 @4.3GHz | Gigabyte 990XA-UD3 Rev. 3.0 | 8GB Dual Channel @1600MHz Corsair Vengeance LP | 2GB MSI GTX 660 Ti Power Edition

CiT Vengeance x11 | 500GB Segate, 2TB WD Green, 2TB WD Red | OCZ ZT 650W | Akasa Venom Voodoo | Ozone 5.1 Strato Evolution

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