[Techtalk] Extended Partitions - I found it! - not quite.

TechChiq techchiq at hotpop.com
Thu Nov 20 14:08:33 EST 2003


On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:52, Conor Daly wrote:
> so, ntfs.com thinks it's a primary fat16 partition with INT13 extensions, microsoft think it's
> an extended partition, openbsd is convinced it's an extended with LBA
> addressing and debian installers can't see it.
> 
> I still don't know what it is but _I_ sure won't be using it!

One site I ran into said it was a DOS LBA extended partition. But I
agree with you on one thing, I wouldn't use it to boot and/or run linux
on.

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