[Discuss] how to change a partition type

R. McFarlane techie at mcfarlanecomputing.net
Sun May 7 18:14:47 PDT 2006


At 06:06 PM 5/7/2006, Andre Steinhausen, had this to say :

>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....

         Thanks for the reminder. I found the table editor in the 
same location as the main application. I changed the value but now it 
reports it as unformatted (?!).

>can also do it with fdisk in linux
>ie:
>
>fdisk /dev/hda
>
>then 't' to change type
>
>etc...

         I'll try this from a boot CD.

Thanks!


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