Article ID: 150315 - Last Review: February 21, 2007 - Revision: 3.2 DOS FDISK program sees NTFS partitions as HPFSThis article was previously published under Q150315 SUMMARY
The FDISK program from MS-DOS 6.22 can remove Windows NT file system (NTFS)
partitions on hard disk drives. However it, identifies these partitions as
HPFS.
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This misidentification is due to the method in which file systems are
reported to the system. The System Identifier Byte in the partition table
for both NTFS and HPFS is 0x07. This indicates an Installable File System
(IFS) type. Both HPFS and NTFS are installable file systems.
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