SOLVED Disk Management and Marking partition active

[Saltgrass]

It seems build 14393 does not let Disk Management mark a partition as active, such as on a Flash Drive.

Does anyone know if the later Insider builds allow this again?

It seems it also won't format a drive larger than 32 GB as FAT32 but it may have been doing that before. I am getting an impression there are some changes in the works regarding FAT32 and the adoption of exFAT. I suppose I need to check if a UEFI system will boot when using exFAT instead of FAT32 on a bootable drive.

Thanks.

 

[Tim Locke]

Will UEFI boot a NTFS USB drive?

 

[Saltgrass]

Will UEFI boot a NTFS USB drive?

No, it has to be FAT32.

I checked the exFAT USB drive on Win 7 and it could not see the drive.

Wondering if the changes, which seem to be occurring, are intended or a bug..

 

[Saltgrass]

I have realized Disk Management has never been able to make a flash drive active. Since I had been using Diskpart for most of those situation, it slipped my mind.