The active partition is the main partition of the hard drive that has a Windows operating system and it can be set as a bootable partition. On every hard drive, you can pick only one primary partition ...

Western Digital WD VelociRaptor internal hard drive. Solid-state drives are all the rage lately, thanks to their high transfer speeds and ultrafast access times, but most people still use cheap, ...

Current Setup:<BR><BR>Vista<BR>IDE 1 Master: DVD-RW<BR>IDE 1 Slave: HD1<BR>SATA 1: HD2<BR><BR>HD1 used to contain an XP install, it's currently drive and contains data files. HD2 contains the Vista ...