I don't know what would cause this to happen, but the only thing that
identifies the type of partition it is, is a single byte within the
partition table. Here is a link to my web page that has the partition
structure described:
http://columbia.yosemite.cc.ca.us/shkabarap/tutorials/partition_table.ht
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I don't have a complete list of the partition type numbers on my page,
but that is incidental to the structure.

If some program happens to change this ID byte, then the partition would
become non-DOS.

Peter
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-----Original Message-----
I've been asking this same question on the net, on many forums, for
about two years - how does a DOS partition suddenly become a Non-DOS
partition?

Ian Porter

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