[NTLUG:Discuss] fdisk

[Scott Womer]

Hi George,

The same thing happened to me a few months ago and using fdisk to set the
partition type back to it's correct value worked fine without any ill
effects.


Scott

----- Original Message -----
From: "George Lass" <George.Lass at osc.com>
To: "ntlug" <discuss at ntlug.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:53 AM
Subject: [NTLUG:Discuss] fdisk


> I have a hard drive that has been at least partially corrupted
> and am attempting to recover as much of it as possible.  To start
> with, the partition type of the one-and-only partition on the drive
> has been set to 0x44.  Both fdisk & partition magic say that type
> 44 is unknown.  What I *think* I'd like to do is to the "t" option
> of fdisk ( t  change a partition's system id) to re-set the type to
> its correct value.  In this case the proper type should be "c"
>
> Does anyone know if fdisk will change anything else on the drive that
> would corrupt more of the data if I try this?
>
>
> TIA,
>
> George
>
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