COMPUTER HARDWARE COMPONENTS FUNCTIONS
WHAT IS A HARD DRIVE
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The Operating System uses the active drive to boot the system
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The active partition is the only Primary partition.
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There can be multiple active partitions.
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Active partitions are considered RAM.
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Detailed explanation-1: -What is a main feature of the active partition of a hard drive that is using MBR? The active partition is the only Primary partition. There can be multiple active partitions. Active partitions are considered RAM.
Detailed explanation-2: -An active partition is a partition on a hard drive set as the bootable partition containing the operating system. Only one partition on each hard drive can be set as an active partition or bootable partition. For example, if you are using Microsoft Windows, the partition containing Windows is the active partition.
Detailed explanation-3: -A boot partition is a volume of the computer that contains the system files used to start the operating system.
Detailed explanation-4: -The system partition (or system volume) is a primary partition that contains the boot loader, a piece of software responsible for booting the operating system. This partition holds the boot sector and is marked active.