
Point to remember : THERE SHOULD BE ONLY ONE ACTIVE DRIVE SO YOU CANT SET MORE THAN ONE DRIVE AS ACTIVE Partition 1 is now the selected partition.Ĩ.Type "inactive" - this will make disk 0 partition 1 as inactiveĮxplanation : This error crops up because you have been in Computer Management > Storage > Disk Management and selected more than 1 drive as ACTIVE together with the one which was already active- the one where your OS was. Since there is a single partition on DISK 0, select it by issuing the command "select partition 1".

then after the ">" symbol type " list disk"ĥ.Now select the disk which you want to make INACTIVE (For instance if i want to make my Disk 1 as active i.e where the OS is installed and REQUIRED to boot, i need to select the drive which i want to make INACTIVE.Question: How do I remove this flag of active from the drive? I ended up restarting the server and things started working again but now BAK6 is still marked as active. Then, BAK1 could not be mapped giving the same error. When I removed and re-added the drive physically it auto mapped E to BAK6 unmapping it from BAK1. I was able to map the other drives fine so I mapped BAK1 to E. BAK6 also had a specific flag of "active" in it's Status" where all the others are simply "Primary Partition".

However, when I had attempted to map the drive BAK6 I received an error of: "parameter incorrect". I then noticed that none of the backup drives were currently mapped when the next one numerically should have been.Īt first I chalked it up to a simple mistake of not mapping the drive previously. I logged onto the server that is connected to the drives. One day I noticed that the backup process was failing. I use a backup storage enclosure with 6 backup drives incrementally backup up and taken off-site.
