Re: mysterious NTFS(?) partition

Reply: Robert Huff : "Re: mysterious NTFS(?) partition"
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From: Yuri <yuri_at_aetern.org>
Date: Tue, 08 Nov 2022 19:14:35 UTC

On 8. 11. 2022., at 19:36, Robert Huff <roberthuff@rcn.com> wrote:
> 
> 
> Hello:
> 	On a system running:
> 
> FreeBSD 14.0-CURRENT #0 main-f0a15aafcb
> Mon Oct 31 08:19:54 EDT 2022
> amd64
> 
> 	I am trying to copy stuff from a Windows/NTFS disk to FreeBSD.
> 	Fuse is installed and working; the disk is mounted; but gpart
> reports this partition table:
> 
>       2048    1024000    1  ntfs  [active]  (500M)
>    1026048  153543656    2  ntfs  (73G)
>  154569704       1048       - free -  (524K)
>  154570752    1726464    3  !39  (843M)
>  156297216       4272       - free -  (2.1M)
> 
> 	p2 is what I really want (and that has been copied) ... but what
> is the "!39"?  I would hate to re-format just to find out I wiped
> something critical.

“!39” looks like the following MBR partition type (translated to hex, from https://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html via google search):

27 Windows RE hidden partition

On MBR disks, type 0x27. On GPT disks, GUID: DE94BBA4-06D1-4D40-A16A-BFD50179D6AC. A hidden version of a Windows RE type 0x7 partition with NTFS. When this is installed, reboot and press F8 in order to boot into this Recovery Environment.