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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Terra Byte(TB)

Expression used to describe data storage capacity or amount of data. One terra byte corresponds to 10244 bytes/characters.

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