Windows 10: What is an active partition?

hi again,
By accident I've partitioned my external HHD as active (by fiddling around with the Disk Manager), and it seems I can't undo it. Can that cause any damage to the bootup? I hope not. My system should boot up from the C: drive, as far as I know, and C: is an internal drive and completely different from the external drive.

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Apps not closing, still running in background

Thanks for the response. I am not looking for a "close all" function. Sometimes I intentionally want to leave an app running. In windows phone 8.1, I could exit and close th app by merely selecting the arrow/back button, I am looking for that same functionality.
When I'm in an app, I want to be able to exit directly from there and not have it continuing in the background.

 

Is There Microsoft An Active Sync Fourm Or Thread anywhere ?

There is a forum for Activesync. Here's the link:

http://forums.microsoft.com/WindowsMobile/ShowForum.aspx?ForumID=1762&SiteID=65

 

It will show you how to change it in the link below

An Easy Way to Set Partition as Active or Inactive

 

Diskpart can be used from the command line to set a patition as inactive.

 

Leaving an active partition on your external disk can confuse or delay the boot process. I would use MiniTool Partition Wizard as suggested to set it to inactive.

 

hi,
Can't I use "diskpart inactive" to do the same thing? Provided the focus is correct .

 

You can use either. MiniTool is graphical and easy to see what you're doing. Diskpart is command line and needs a bit more thought to use, you have to be careful to select the right disk and then the right partition.