[Discuss] how to change a partition type

[Nico Foltinek]

>
>          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.
>

I'm pretty sure that this can do what you need:

http://www.cgsecurity.org/wiki/TestDisk

It worked for me when I accidentally deleted the partition table on
the wrong disk; your favourite liveCD distro probably has it
installed, so you don't need to boot off a hard drive.

nico


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