[Discuss] how to change a partition type

[Lionel Widdifield]

On Sun, May 07, 2006 at 06:34:25PM -0700, R. McFarlane wrote:
> 
>          For some reason fdisk reports that there is no partition map 
> although partition magic sees it all. This is starting to look really 
> serious. :'(
> 

 Before progressing to far might I suggest, making a copy of the partition
table. You can also hexedit the file and restore it to change the partition
types.
  

 dd if=/dev/hda of=bootblock.hda bs=512 count=1

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