[NTLUG:Discuss] fdisk

[Gregory L. Camp]

I believe you are right on, George.  fdisk *should* only set the partition
type and leave everything else alone.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: George Lass [mailto:George.Lass at osc.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, March 20, 2002 9:54 AM
> To: ntlug
> 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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