Definition: Active Partition


The partition of the drive that contains the operating system. If the drive has multiple partitions, only the primary partition can be made active. A hard drive can have only one active partition.




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No Physical Damage

No physical damage in the drive itself was identified during physical analysis. All raw data from the drive may be copied to other storage medium without loss.

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