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List of Master boot record Partition types on IBM PC compatible computers[1]
System ID Developer Description
0x00 IBM Empty partition
0x01 Microsoft FAT12
0x02 Microsoft & SCO XENIX root
0x03 Microsoft & SCO XENIX usr
0x04 Microsoft FAT16 with less than 65536 sectors (32 MB)
0x05 IBM Extended partition with CHS addressing
0x06 Compaq FAT16 with 65536 or more sectors
0x07 Microsoft HPFS or
NTFS or
exFAT
0x08 IBM AIX
0x09 IBM AIX bootable
0x0A Microsoft & IBM OS/2 Boot Manager
0x0B Microsoft FAT32 with CHS addressing
0x0C Microsoft FAT32 with LBA
0x0E Microsoft FAT16 with LBA
0x0F Microsoft Extended partition with LBA
0x11 Microsoft Hidden FAT12
0x12 Compaq Compaq diagnostics (FAT) or another OEM partition[2]
0x14 Microsoft Hidden FAT16
0x17 Microsoft Hidden HPFS or
hidden NTFS
0x1B Microsoft Hidden FAT32
0x1C Microsoft Hidden FAT32 with LBA
0x1D Microsoft Hidden FAT16 with LBA
0x27 Microsoft Windows recovery partition (hidden NTFS)[3]
0x64 Novell NetWare File System 286
0x65 Novell NetWare File System 386
0x78 Geurt Vos XOSL bootloader filesystem[citation needed]
0x80 Andrew Tanenbaum Old Minix file system
0x81 Andrew Tanenbaum MINIX file system
0x82 GNU/Linux or
Sun Microsystems
Linux swap space or
Solaris
0x83 GNU/Linux Any native Linux file system
0x84 Microsoft Hibernation (suspend to disk, S2D)[2][4]
0x85 GNU/Linux Linux extended[5]
0x86 Microsoft Legacy FT FAT16
0x87 Microsoft Legacy FT NTFS
0x88 GNU/Linux Linux plaintext
0x89 GNU/Linux Linux LVM
0x8B Microsoft Legacy FT FAT32
0x8C Microsoft Legacy FT FAT32 with LBA
0xA0 HP Diagnostic partition for HP laptops[2]
0xA5 FreeBSD BSD slice[6]
0xDE Dell Dell diagnostic partition[2]
0xEB Be Inc. BFS (BeOS or Haiku)
0xEE Microsoft EFI protective MBR[7]
0xEF Intel EFI System partition can be a FAT file system
0xFB VMware VMware VMFS
0xFC VMware VMware VMKCORE
0xFD GNU/Linux Linux RAID auto
0xFE IBM IBM IML partition[2]

This is not an exhaustive list, notably ambiguous or obscure partition types are not covered.

See also

References

  1. ^ Andries Brouwer (2009-12-21). "List of partition identifiers for PCs". Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  2. ^ a b c d e "Virtual Disk Service (VDS adcanced clean method)". Data Access and Storage. Microsoft Developer Network. 2011-09-07. Retrieved 2011-09-14.
  3. ^ "BIOS-Based Disk-Partition Configurations". MSDN. Microsoft. 2009-10-22. Retrieved 2011-07-24.
  4. ^ "Drive Letters Assigned to Unsupported Partition Types". Microsoft Knowledge Base. Microsoft. 2007-02-27.
  5. ^ Andries Brouwer (2004). "Extended and logical partitions". Large Disk HOWTO. Retrieved 2011-07-19.
  6. ^ "Disk Organization". FreeBSD Handbook. FreeBSD. 2011. Retrieved 2011-07-30.
  7. ^ "Windows and GPT FAQ". Windows Hardware Developer Center. Microsoft. 2011-06-15. Retrieved 2011-07-24. {{cite web}}: External link in |work= (help)