Felix Miata wrote:
>
> Ron Stodden wrote:
>
> > Windows happily recognises type 85 - it has to because 85
> > supports large disks whereas 5 does not.
>
> News to me. Before today I never knew Linux used 85 as an extended
> partition type. PTEDIT.EXE knows nothing of a type 85h. I changed one of
> mine from 05h to 85h and all FAT16 and FAT32 partitions disappeared from
> windoze. To windoze 9x, only 05h and 0Fh are valid extended partition
> types.
My apologies. I was referring to the code for 'Extd (LBA)' which is
0F, not 85.
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Ron. [au]
