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On Tuesday 08 February 2005 03:22 am, Dag-Erling Sm=F8rgrav wrote:
> boot0 currently recognizes FAT partition types 0x1, 0x4, 0x6, 0xb, 0xc
> and 0xe but not NTFS (type 0x7).  While type 0x1 (FAT12) is used on
> floppies and 0x6 (FAT16 >32M) is still in relatively common use on
> hard disks, I believe 0x4 (FAT16 <32M) hasn't been in widespread use
> since the late eighties.  The attached patch removes 0x4 from the list
> of recognized partition types in boot0 and adds 0x7 in its place.
>
> We still don't have room for the string "Windows", so type 0x7 is
> identified as DOS, but at least it's identified...

Go for it.  I think boot0ext does recognize it as Windows or some such FWIW.

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