Active Volume


What is Active Volume?

The Active Volume is the volume from which a computer starts up. On a computer running Microsoft Windows Server, the active volume must be a simple volume, and it must be on a dynamic disk.

Active Volume (Hard Drive)

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You can upgrade the basic disk that contains the active partition to a dynamic disk, making it a simple volume that is active, but you cannot mark an existing dynamic volume as the active volume.

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