Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS hidden partition types

Hi Bernd, Thanks for the links and the context. They look like they were a bad idea that was quickly reverted. Mike On Mon, Jul 7, 2025 at 1:33 AM Bernd Böckmann wrote: > Hi Mike, > > seems this kind of partition type got introduced by FDISK version 0.96 [1] > in 1999. However, these were a

Re: [Freedos-devel] FreeDOS hidden partition types

Hi Mike, seems this kind of partition type got introduced by FDISK version 0.96 [1] in 1999. However, these were already removed by 1.0 RC2 [2], which got released in 2001. The exact reason is unclear to me. Maybe someone involved in the project at that time knows why the types were initially i

[Freedos-devel] FreeDOS hidden partition types

Over at the Wikipedia "List of partition IDs " I was surprised to find that FreeDOS FDISK has partition types defined for hidden FAT and Extended partitions that have different type numbers than the standard hidden versions of those. For example, FreeD