Non-boot partition on drive marked active?

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crazycd1

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I just got done installing wondows on a new 1TB drive. I partitioned C as 60gb and the rest of the space is E for data. Some how E ended up being marked as "active".. I though only the boot partition could or should be active? Windows 7 is on C and the computer boots fine. Just wondering if there is a way to take the active flag off of the E partition and not destroy all the data on it?
The flags are as follows:
C: Boot, page file, crash dump, primary
E: System, active, primary

Just wanted to know what you guys think I should do, maybe leave it alone as its working ok right now?
 
Up to one primary partition on each disk can be marked active. This will be no harm. I know any linux live cd will present you an option to toggle the active status of any primary partition however I am not sure how to do that in disk manager. Perhaps windows fdisk will do it.
 
I figured it out, used diskpart from a command prompt to toggle it off on E and back on to C..
I did notice that I have a Boot folder, bootmgr and BOOTSECT.BAK files on both partitions, is it safe to remove those from the non-os partition?
 
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If it is not booting from that then yes. If the bios boots from the secondary disk but then has the os on the other disk no.
 
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