File System Type

[Gary W. Swearingen]

Anthony Yarusso <tonyyarusso at earthlink.net> writes:

> Richard E. Barmann wrote:
>> Is there a way to chnge a file system type "Unknown Partition Type 0x8" to 
>> a "windows NTFS" type? I have reinstalled WindowsXP several times on my 
>> second (slave) driveand instead of loading as a windows NTFS as I choose it 
>> shows up as "extended3" and will not boot from grub.
>>   
> I remember having to do something like this to make my recovery
> partition work.  I believe it involved running the fdisk utility and
> using the "t" option to assign the type.  Once I did that and rebooted
> all was well.  (Unfortunately fdisk is not the most user friendly tool
> ever.)

"cfdisk" is a little more friendly and it looks like "gparted" is a
full-blown GUI type.  Run it from a CD using stuff at
http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php