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Unmark a partition as "active"

Hi,   i have windows 10. I have a 120 gig ssd and another hard drive of 2 terra.b. . I was looking at my discs in Disc Management and i saw one has the word "active" included along the line where it says Healthy ( system, boot, crash dump, active, Primary Partition).   The ssd only had Healthy (system, primary partition)   I was thinking it may need the word "active" so i clicked on "active" now it is added to the list of Healthy. Is this wrong to do?????   I do not know how to make the word "active " go away (back) as there seems to be no option. 
Active on a Legacy install is the partition where the boot files reside...  If that partition is your system partition then it can't be changed..
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Hello Trina, 

Marking a partition as active on a basic disk means that the computer will use the loader (an operating system tool) on that partition to start the operating system.

You can use the same method in the tutorial below in Windows 10 to remove "active" from the partition you mistakenly added it to. 

https://www.sevenforums.com/tutorials/197157-partition-mark-inactive.html

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