[SOLVED] Neither system or boot partitions labeled as primary or active: problem?

[nofearcavalier]

I clean installed Windows 10 pro to SSD. Showing three partitions:

EFI System Partition
Boot-Page File-Crash Dump-Basic Data Partition
Recovery Partition

None of these are Active or Primary, and Windows seems to be working fine. Is there a potential future problem here?

 

[rgd1101]

is there any other drive? did you have the other drive connected when you install windows?

 

[popatim]

It doesn't look like you let Windows partition the drive .

Can you link us to a screenshot of CrystalDiskInfo plz. You'll need to host it on a sharing site and paste the link in a reply.

Thanks.

 

[nofearcavalier]

is there any other drive? did you have the other drive connected when you install windows?

Howdy, and thanks:

Yes, I used a Flashdrive for a clean install. I had one other drive connected and I see now that IT is listed as "primary." I was sure it wasn't before...

 

[nofearcavalier]

It doesn't look like you let Windows partition the drive .

Can you link us to a screenshot of CrystalDiskInfo plz. You'll need to host it on a sharing site and paste the link in a reply.

Thanks.

Howdy, and thanks for the help.

I downloaded the Crystal Disc program, ran it through once. Here is the link:

https://imgur.com/a/WqA5vqj

View: https://imgur.com/a/WqA5vqj

 

[popatim]

Thats CrystalDiskMARK
I was looking for CrystaldiskINFO which lets us see the Drives SMART tables.

 

[SkyNetRising]

None of these are Active or Primary, and Windows seems to be working fine.

That is standard, how partitions in UEFI system would look (GPT partitioned drive).
Active partition is possible only on MBR partitioned drive.

 

[fzabkar]

The UEFI BIOS automatically looks for the EFI system partition and boots from it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EFI_system_partition

There is no need for an active flag, although bit #2 of the partition attributes is assigned to "Legacy BIOS bootable (equivalent to active flag ... in partition entries of the MBR partition table)".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GUID_Partition_Table

 

[nofearcavalier]

Thanks to both of you. What I'm hearing is that I've nothing to worry about. I really remember thinking that all of this was much easier: lol.