Question Old SSD retaining its boot past as active, primary partition. Shouldn't that be my current boot drive?

[Gus_33]

Is this normal?

https://imgur.com/a/MNBgx8T

Disk 1 is an old SSD that I probably used to run an OS on, its MBR and is the Active primary partition.. but it has no OS on it anymore.

My OS is running from disk 3 which isn't an active primary partition, is GPT and is a much faster NVMe.

I am unable to make disk 3 (the C drive) active, its greyed out.

Should I be at all worried about this? I have had some issues with my PC but nothing too major. It does look a mess though with all those recovery partitions but I can't work out how to delete them.

 

[dev_cyberpunk]

Is this normal?

https://imgur.com/a/MNBgx8T

Disk 1 is an old SSD that I probably used to run an OS on, its MBR and is the Active primary partition.. but it has no OS on it anymore.

My OS is running from disk 3 which isn't an active primary partition, is GPT and is a much faster NVMe.

I am unable to make disk 3 (the C drive) active, its greyed out.

Should I be at all worried about this? I have had some issues with my PC but nothing too major. It does look a mess though with all those recovery partitions but I can't work out how to delete them.

The active flag is a MBR partition type attribute, and means nothing to the system since its booting in UEFI mode instead of CSR.

What you have to do is assign the partition a drive letter, then delete the partition. Otherwise you have to launch as administrator, a dos prompt window and run diskpart.

The disk number has no meaning other than listing them as SATA first, then PCI , then USB so if you thinking that the NVMe drive needs to be drive 0, it doesn't.

 

[Eximo]

Here is a guide on moving your boot partition to the drive of your choice:

View: https://youtu.be/oaH20g1kypA

 

[Gus_33]

The active flag is a MBR partition type attribute, and means nothing to the system since its booting in UEFI mode instead of CSR.

What you have to do is assign the partition a drive letter, then delete the partition. Otherwise you have to launch as administrator, a dos prompt window and run diskpart.

The disk number has no meaning other than listing them as SATA first, then PCI , then USB so if you thinking that the NVMe drive needs to be drive 0, it doesn't.

But it's already assigned a drive letter, all I can do is change it.

 

[Gus_33]

Here is a guide on moving your boot partition to the drive of your choice:

View: https://youtu.be/oaH20g1kypA

I don't think that's what I want to do. I want to make my current boot drive the active primary partition.. don't I? But the option is greyed out.

 

[Eximo]

To me it looks like your actual boot partition is still the old SSD. Your OS drive has a boot sector on it, but it may not be the one in use.

You can only have one Active Primary, and you can't change it while in Windows proper.

My goal would be to remove the SSD entirely since it is rather small. Does your system work without it now?

 

[USAFRet]

Make/model of each numbered disk.
Which is the old "OS drive", and which do you think it should be now?