{"id":491,"date":"2011-04-16T04:46:00","date_gmt":"2011-04-16T11:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kb.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb-articles\/how-to-manually-set-a-partition-active-2\/"},"modified":"2021-09-07T14:59:02","modified_gmt":"2021-09-07T21:59:02","slug":"how-to-manually-set-a-partition-active-2","status":"publish","type":"lsvr_kba","link":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/kb-articles\/how-to-manually-set-a-partition-active-2\/","title":{"rendered":"How to Manually Set a Partition Active"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To set a partition active using BootIt Bare Metal do the following: <\/p>\r\n  <ol>\r\n    <li>If installed, boot to BootIt BM. If not installed, boot to the&nbsp;BootIt&nbsp;BM Setup&nbsp;media (CD,&nbsp;USB 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>Select the desired drive from the <strong>Drives<\/strong> drop-down box.<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 BM. 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 Bare Metal do the following: If installed, boot to BootIt BM. If not installed, boot to the&nbsp;BootIt&nbsp;BM Setup&nbsp;media (CD,&nbsp;USB 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":[1824],"lsvr_kba_tag":[2119],"class_list":["post-491","lsvr_kba","type-lsvr_kba","status-publish","hentry","lsvr_kba_cat-general-information-bootit","lsvr_kba_tag-bootit-bare-metal"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/491","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=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6231,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba\/491\/revisions\/6231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_cat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_cat?post=491"},{"taxonomy":"lsvr_kba_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.terabyteunlimited.com\/kb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/lsvr_kba_tag?post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}