How to mark a drive as Active in Computer management or Command prompt Diskpart
In order to make a drive be able to boot an Operating system, you have to mark it as active in computer management > Disk management or use the command prompt in Windows.
Tutorial for making your partition active in computer management or command prompt
Computer Management > Disk Management
Click Start Menu button > Run and type diskmgmt.msc in the Open Text box and click OK.
You first need to know which drive you want to mark as active, and right click the drive and pick Mark Partion as active.
Mark as active
Command prompt Diskpart
If you are using the command prompt, you need to go to Start > run > type CMD, and press enter.
1. Type Diskpart in CMD.exe
2. Type list volume
3. Type select volume #
#=volume you want to make active.
4. Type Active.
Screen cap of me making my USB drive active.
Mark volume as active CMD
Now your Drive is bootable, so you can use it to make a bootable drive.
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