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An active primary partition is the primary partition from which an operating system boots. Most operating systems require a primary partition from which to boot. Primary partitions other than an active primary partition remain hidden to an operating system that uses the active primary partition to store its file system.

See also: primary partition, extended partition, logical partition, hard disk drive partitioning, hard disk drive, hard disk drive partitioning, logical formatting, physical formatting, boot sequence

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