{"id":198,"date":"2004-10-19T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2004-10-19T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/message-not-found-any-active-partition-in-hdd-during-boot\/"},"modified":"2021-09-10T13:49:41","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T20:49:41","slug":"message-not-found-any-active-partition-in-hdd-during-boot","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/message-not-found-any-active-partition-in-hdd-during-boot\/","title":{"rendered":"Message &#8220;Not found any [active partition] in HDD&#8221; During Boot"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Problem:<\/strong><br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nWhile trying to boot, the BIOS issues an error message similar to one of the following:<\/p>\r\n<blockquote>\r\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Not found any [active partition] in HDD<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nReboot and Select Proper Boot Device<br \/>\r\n<br \/>\r\nInsert Boot Media in Selected Boot Device<br \/>\r\n<\/span><\/p>\r\n<\/blockquote>\r\n<p><strong>Cause:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>These error messages usually indicate that there are no active primary partitions in the MBR on HD0.<\/p>\r\n<p><strong>Solution:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n<p>You can use one of the following methods to set a partition active:<\/p>\r\n<ul>\r\n\t<li>Use BootIt BM.\u00a0 See <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/?p=491\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">How to Manually Set a Partition Active<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Boot a DOS startup diskette and use <a href=\"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/download-free-software\/#mbrwork\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">MBRWork<\/a>.<\/li>\r\n\t<li>Boot a DOS startup diskette and use FDisk.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Problem: While trying to boot, the BIOS issues an error message similar to one of the following: Not found any [active partition] in HDD Reboot and Select Proper Boot Device Insert Boot Media in Selected Boot Device Cause: These error messages usually indicate that there are no active primary partitions in the MBR on HD0. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"lsvr_kba_cat":[1808],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2131],"class_list":["post-198","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-hardware-or-bios","lsvr_kba_tag-bios"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/198","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=198"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/198\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6622,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/198\/revisions\/6622"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=198"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}