Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!think.com!unixland!achilles From: achilles@unixland.uucp (David Holland) Subject: Partition table Message-ID: Sender: bbs@unixland.uucp (Waffle BBS) Organization: The Think_Tank BBS & Public-Access Unix Distribution: comp Date: Wed, 03 Apr 91 01:17:55 EST Owing to some recent computer trouble I've been poking somewhat deeper into my system than usual, and I noticed the following interesting oddity about the partition table: there are only two partitions listed, one of which is twice as large as the other, and only one of them is marked DOS. The disk contains three equal-sized partitions, all of which are DOS; where is this information stored? Or does Norton's partition-table editor mislead me? As might be expected it's the boot partition that is marked DOS in the partition table... ------------ David A. Holland pro-angmar!achilles@alfalfa.com ... alphalpha!pro-angmar!achilles CAD/CAM: Computer Aided Disaster/Computer Assisted Mayhem :-) p.s. Please don't mail to the account this was posted from.