How did I get TYPE 44 Partitions

[feb]

I have formatted and re-partitioned with Pq magic two hard drives which were originaly done with Fdsik. I then loaded Win 98 SE and software. The system still boots to windows and software works fine but I made a boot disk and went to check it and got a message saying windows cant find a valid partition. Ran Pq magic and it said partition was type 44 and showed no other information. I have sorted the problem with Norton Emergency Disks and now Pq magic recognises everything again and the boot disk works.

1:- what is a type 44 partition
2:- what is likley to have caused the problem in the first
place

 

[Chapium]

Hmmm... I dont know off hand what a type 44 is, but with Windows you should expect to be on a type 0b partition. The only thing that I think could have caused this (I had a partitioning nightmare a few months ago) would be the fact that you used two different partition programs. Norton must have fixed the mislabel

 

[Guest_imported]

the type 44 partition is caused by a program called go back!
I tried to image a drive of this type but it caused problems when transfered to a larger hard disk.No more extra space was available after the transfer even though I had partitioned and formated it properly.the solution was to uninstall go back,this restored the partitiontype to normal and allowed the tranfer to work properly. hope this helps,
Oddz

 

[feb]

Thanks Oddz

I did use GoBack when I set the drives up
all is now clear

 

[MiklK]

For me, too, Go Back created 'mysterious' partitions (not named, in my case) that Win98 Start Up disk and some other things did not like a bit - took me a while to figure what it was, too. Mikl
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