[Discuss] how to change a partition type

[Andre Steinhausen]

i have used the partition magic boot floppies in the past
you can change the any of hex values using the gui that comes up... and 
change them back if need be....



can also do it with fdisk in linux
ie:

fdisk /dev/hda

then 't' to change type

etc...




Andre


R. McFarlane wrote:
> Hello list,
> 
>         Does anyone know how to change the type value of a partition? I 
> used gparted on the Ubuntu 5.10 live disc to copy a fat32 partition from 
> one drive to another and although the computer boots fine, partition 
> magic 8 sees that partition as an ext2 partition. I have looked at the 
> hex value in partition magic of this gparted copied partition and it 
> reports a different value than one of my other fat32 partitions.
>         Also, on another drive, I have two fat32 partitions but one of 
> them somehow is marked as hfs+ instead of fat32. Again, is there a way I 
> can change the partition type without destroying the data that exists? 
> My only clue is the hex value. I have never hex edited a partition type 
> before.
> 
>         To recap, I need to change a partition type from hfs+ to fat32 
> and another from ext2 to fat32. Both partitions have existing data and 
> as far as I know all that has been messed up is the partition type value.
> 
> Thanks in advance!
> 
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