{"id":196,"date":"2004-10-19T08:24:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T15:24:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-manually-set-a-partition-active\/"},"modified":"2021-09-06T23:09:42","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T06:09:42","slug":"how-to-manually-set-a-partition-active","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-manually-set-a-partition-active\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manually Set a Partition Active"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To set a partition active using BootIt Next Generation&nbsp;do the following: <\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>If installed, boot to BootIt NG. If not installed, boot to the&nbsp;BootIt NG installation&nbsp;media (CD, flash drive, floppy). <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>If installed, enter Maintenance Mode by clicking the <strong>Maintenance<\/strong> button. If booted from the installation media,&nbsp;click the <strong>Cancel<\/strong> button to enter Maintenance Mode. <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Click&nbsp;the <strong>Partition Work<\/strong> button.<\/font \/> <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Click&nbsp;the <strong>View MBR<\/strong> button.<\/font \/> <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Highlight the partition you want active and click&nbsp;the <strong>Set Active<\/strong> button.<\/font \/> <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n    <li>Click&nbsp;the <strong>Apply<\/strong> button.<\/font \/> <br \/><br \/><\/li>\r\n  <\/ol>\r\n  <p>To prevent loss of active status, consider enabling the <strong>Keep HD Active<\/strong> option in BootIt NG. Use this option to ensure that the active status on all hard drives remains active.<\/font \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To set a partition active using BootIt Next Generation&nbsp;do the following: If installed, boot to BootIt NG. If not installed, boot to the&nbsp;BootIt NG installation&nbsp;media (CD, flash drive, floppy). If installed, enter Maintenance Mode by clicking the Maintenance button. If booted from the installation media,&nbsp;click the Cancel button to enter Maintenance Mode. Click&nbsp;the Partition Work [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1804],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2118],"class_list":["post-196","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-general-information-bing-archive","lsvr_kba_tag-archived"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/lsvr_kba"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/196\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5999,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/196\/revisions\/5999"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=196"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}