Peter Shkabara responded to my enquiry about how a DOS partition can become
a NON-DOS partition with the following information and link to his home
page.

As Peter explained, it appears that the difference between DOS and NON-DOS
partitions is a single byte of data in the partition table.

Peter, do you know, or does anyone else know, how to write to this partition
table?

Ian Porter
Computer Guys Inc.
Arrowtown
New Zealand
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From: "Peter Shkabara" Subject: Re: [PCBUILD] DOS Partition Changed to
Non-DOS


> 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.htm
>
> 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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