ok i had copied all the files from the c-drive of my old dying pc to a new pc however I did not do a clone so I just have the files (all files including hidden ones) in my new c-drive. Ofcourse since ...

The active partition is the main partition of the hard drive that has a Windows operating system and it can be set as a bootable partition. On every hard drive, you can pick only one primary partition ...

You mightn't think it, but the Windows 11 Recovery Environment is genuinely powerful.