[Cialug] FS Type 72, 74, sda1p1, sda1p2

[Tom Pohl]

My mother had an issue where the laptop crashed and its partitions were all wonky like that.  I booted to RIPLinuX and used testdisk to find the partitions and re-write the table.

-Tom


On Aug 24, 2010, at 7:18 PM, kristau wrote:

> On Sun, Aug 22, 2010 at 12:18 PM, L. V. Lammert <lvl at omnitec.net> wrote:
>> Just had a friend bring a laptop by for recovery, .. and the HD has a
>> config I have never seen before.
>> 
>> Partition 1, /dev/sda1p1, type 72
>> Partition 2, /dev/sda1p2, type 75
> 
> Partition type 72 is supposed to be V7/x86, a port of UNIX Version 7
> to the PC, available at www.nordier.com/v7x86.
> 
> Partition type 75 is supposed to be 75 IBM PC/IX
> 
>> 
>> Partion 3 shows Novell Netware
>> Partition 4 show blank
>> 
> 
> Novell Netware has several partition types associated with it:
> 
> 64 Novell Netware 286, 2.xx
> 65 Novell Netware 386, 3.xx or 4.xx
>    (Novell Netware used to be the main Network Operating System
> available. Netware 68 or S-Net (1983) was for a Motorola 68000,
> Netware 86 for an Intel 8086 or 8088. Netware 286 was for an Intel
> 80286 and existed in various versions that were later merged to
> Netware 2.2. Netware 386 was a rewrite in C for the Intel 386, later
> renamed 3.x - it existed at least in versions 3.0, 3.1, 3.10, 3.11,
> 3.12. Its successor Netware 4.xx had versions 4.00, 4.01, 4.02, 4.10,
> 4.11. Then came Intranetware.) Netware >= 3.0 uses one partition per
> drive. It allocates logical Volumes inside these partitions. The
> volumes can be split over several drives. The filesystem used is
> called "Turbo FAT"; it only very vaguely resembles the DOS FAT file
> system. (Kai Henningsen (kai at khms.westfalen.de))
> 66 Novell Netware SMS Partition
>    According to disk.c in the Netware source. SMS: Storage Management
> Services. No longer used.
> 67 Novell
>    Roman Gruber reports: this code has frozen my version of norton
> disk-editor (so I think it has to be something special). Jeff Merkey
> says: 67 is for Wolf Mountain.
> 68 Novell
> 69 Novell Netware 5+, Novell Netware NSS Partition
>    According to disk.c in the Netware source. NSS = Novell Storage Services.
> 
> [ source: http://www.win.tue.nl/~aeb/partitions/partition_types-1.html ]
> 
>> [Reading with fdisk from a System Rescue CD.]
>> 
>> Has anyone seen a setup like this? They thought they were running XP, but
>> this sort of partition arrangement is nothing Windoze can support to my
>> knowledge.
> 
> No, I've not see this very odd looking setup. If you can somehow
> confirm they were indeed using Windows XP prior to their "crash" then
> I see only two possibilities:
> 
> * The drive's partition table is corrupted, giving false information
> about the partitions.
> * They were using some sort of whole disk encryption based off of that
> V7/x86 *nix variant.
> -- 
> Tired programmer
> Coding late into the night
> The core dump follows
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