Partition type
Encyclopedia
| System ID | Developer | Description |
|---|---|---|
| 0x00 | IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas... |
Empty partition |
| 0x01 | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
FAT12 |
| 0x02 | Microsoft & SCO | XENIX Xenix Xenix is a version of the Unix operating system, licensed to Microsoft from AT&T in the late 1970s. The Santa Cruz Operation later acquired exclusive rights to the software, and eventually superseded it with SCO UNIX .... root |
| 0x03 | Microsoft & SCO | XENIX usr |
| 0x04 | Microsoft | FAT16 with less than 65536 sectors (32 MB) |
| 0x05 | IBM | Extended partition with CHS Cylinder-head-sector Cylinder-head-sector, also known as CHS, was an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. In the case of floppy drives, for which the same exact diskette medium can be truly low-level formatted to different capacities, this is still true.Though CHS... addressing |
| 0x06 | Compaq Compaq Compaq Computer Corporation is a personal computer company founded in 1982. Once the largest supplier of personal computing systems in the world, Compaq existed as an independent corporation until 2002, when it was acquired for US$25 billion by Hewlett-Packard.... |
FAT16 with 65536 or more sectors |
| 0x07 | Microsoft | HPFS HPFS HPFS or High Performance File System is a file system created specifically for the OS/2 operating system to improve upon the limitations of the FAT file system... or NTFS NTFS NTFS is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.... or exFAT ExFAT exFAT is a proprietary, patent-pending file system designed especially for USB flash drives. Developed by Microsoft, it is supported in Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 with update KB955704, Windows Embedded CE 6.0, Windows Vista with Service Pack 1, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7, Windows... |
| 0x08 | IBM | AIX |
| 0x09 | IBM | AIX bootable |
| 0x0A | Microsoft & IBM | OS/2 OS/2 OS/2 is a computer operating system, initially created by Microsoft and IBM, then later developed by IBM exclusively. The name stands for "Operating System/2," because it was introduced as part of the same generation change release as IBM's "Personal System/2 " line of second-generation personal... Boot Manager |
| 0x0B | Microsoft | FAT32 with CHS Cylinder-head-sector Cylinder-head-sector, also known as CHS, was an early method for giving addresses to each physical block of data on a hard disk drive. In the case of floppy drives, for which the same exact diskette medium can be truly low-level formatted to different capacities, this is still true.Though CHS... addressing |
| 0x0C | Microsoft | FAT32 with LBA Logical block addressing Logical block addressing is a common scheme used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices, generally secondary storage systems such as hard disks.... |
| 0x0E | Microsoft | FAT16 with LBA Logical block addressing Logical block addressing is a common scheme used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices, generally secondary storage systems such as hard disks.... |
| 0x0F | Microsoft | Extended partition with LBA Logical block addressing Logical block addressing is a common scheme used for specifying the location of blocks of data stored on computer storage devices, generally secondary storage systems such as hard disks.... |
| 0x11 | Microsoft | Hidden FAT12 |
| 0x12 | Compaq | Compaq diagnostics (FAT File Allocation Table File Allocation Table is a computer file system architecture now widely used on many computer systems and most memory cards, such as those used with digital cameras. FAT file systems are commonly found on floppy disks, flash memory cards, digital cameras, and many other portable devices because of... ) or another OEM partition |
| 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 |
| 0x20 | Microsoft | Windows Mobile update XIP |
| 0x23 | Microsoft | Windows Mobile boot XIP |
| 0x25 | Microsoft | Windows Mobile IMGFS |
| 0x27 | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
Windows recovery partition (hidden NTFS NTFS NTFS is the standard file system of Windows NT, including its later versions Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Server 2008, Windows Vista, and Windows 7.... ) |
| 0x3C | PowerQuest PowerQuest PowerQuest was a software company that produced utility software. It was acquired by Symantec in 2003. PowerQuest's market focus was on management of computer data storage, especially file systems and disk partitions. Their products included PartitionMagic, ServerMagic, and Drive... |
PqRP (PartitionMagic PartitionMagic PartitionMagic was a computer program for hard disk drive partitioning originally made by the PowerQuest corporation but now owned by Symantec. As of December 8, 2009, the Symantec website stated that they no longer offer Partition Magic. The program runs on Microsoft Windows operating systems... in progress) |
| 0x64 | Novell Novell Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise... |
NetWare File System NetWare File System In computing, a NetWare File System is a file system based on a heavily-modified version of FAT. It was used in the Novell NetWare operating system. It is the default and only file system for all volumes in versions 2.x through 4.x, and the default and only file system for the SYS volume... 286 |
| 0x65 | Novell Novell Novell, Inc. is a multinational software and services company. It is a wholly owned subsidiary of The Attachmate Group. It specializes in network operating systems, such as Novell NetWare; systems management solutions, such as Novell ZENworks; and collaboration solutions, such as Novell Groupwise... |
NetWare File System NetWare File System In computing, a NetWare File System is a file system based on a heavily-modified version of FAT. It was used in the Novell NetWare operating system. It is the default and only file system for all volumes in versions 2.x through 4.x, and the default and only file system for the SYS volume... 386 |
| 0x78 | Geurt Vos | XOSL XOSL xOSL is the name of a bootloader, which is a program product class that launches operating systems from a bootable device such as a hard disk or floppy drive. The letters are an acronym that stand for eXtended Operating System Loader... bootloader filesystem |
| 0x80 | Andrew Tanenbaum | Old Minix Minix MINIX is a Unix-like computer operating system based on a microkernel architecture created by Andrew S. Tanenbaum for educational purposes; MINIX also inspired the creation of the Linux kernel.... file system |
| 0x81 | Andrew Tanenbaum | MINIX file system MINIX file system -History:MINIX was written from scratch by Andrew S. Tanenbaum in the 1980s, as a Unix-like operating system whose source code could be used freely in education... |
| 0x82 | GNU/Linux or Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems Sun Microsystems, Inc. was a company that sold :computers, computer components, :computer software, and :information technology services. Sun was founded on February 24, 1982... |
Linux swap space or Solaris |
| 0x83 | GNU/Linux | Any native Linux file system |
| 0x84 | Microsoft | Hibernation (suspend to disk, S2D) |
| 0x85 | GNU/Linux | Linux extended |
| 0x86 | Microsoft | Legacy FT FAT16 |
| 0x87 | Microsoft | Legacy FT NTFS |
| 0x88 | GNU/Linux | Linux plaintext |
| 0x89 | GNU/Linux | Linux LVM Logical Volume Manager (Linux) LVM is a logical volume manager for the Linux kernel; it manages disk drives and similar mass-storage devices, in particular large ones. The term "volume" refers to a disk drive or partition thereof... |
| 0x8B | Microsoft | Legacy FT FAT32 |
| 0x8C | Microsoft | Legacy FT FAT32 with LBA |
| 0xA0 | HP Hewlett-Packard Hewlett-Packard Company or HP is an American multinational information technology corporation headquartered in Palo Alto, California, USA that provides products, technologies, softwares, solutions and services to consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses and large enterprises, including... |
Diagnostic partition for HP laptops |
| 0xA5 | FreeBSD FreeBSD FreeBSD is a free Unix-like operating system descended from AT&T UNIX via BSD UNIX. Although for legal reasons FreeBSD cannot be called “UNIX”, as the direct descendant of BSD UNIX , FreeBSD’s internals and system APIs are UNIX-compliant... |
BSD slice BSD disklabel In BSD-derived computer operating systems and in related operating systems such as SunOS, a disklabel is a record stored on a data storage device such as a hard disk that contains information about the location of the partitions on the disk. Disklabels were introduced in the 4.3BSD-Tahoe release... |
| 0xDE | Dell Dell Dell, Inc. is an American multinational information technology corporation based in 1 Dell Way, Round Rock, Texas, United States, that develops, sells and supports computers and related products and services. Bearing the name of its founder, Michael Dell, the company is one of the largest... |
Dell diagnostic partition |
| 0xEB | Be Inc. Be Inc. Be Incorporated was an American computer company founded in 1990, best known for the Be Operating System and BeBox personal computer. Be was founded by former Apple Computer executive Jean-Louis Gassée with capital from Seymour Cray.... |
BFS Be File System The Be File System is the native file system for the BeOS.... (BeOS BeOS BeOS is an operating system for personal computers which began development by Be Inc. in 1991. It was first written to run on BeBox hardware. BeOS was optimized for digital media work and was written to take advantage of modern hardware facilities such as symmetric multiprocessing by utilizing... or Haiku Haiku (operating system) Haiku is a free and open source operating system compatible with BeOS. Its development began in 2001, and the operating system became self-hosting in 2008, with the first alpha release in September 2009, the second in May 2010 and the third in June 2011.... ) |
| 0xEE | Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions... |
EFI EFI System Partition The EFI System partition is a partition on a data storage device that is used by machines that adhere to the Extensible Firmware Interface. It contains the boot loader programs for all operating systems installed on the device, device driver files for other devices, and system utility programs... protective MBR Master boot record A master boot record is a type of boot sector popularized by the IBM Personal Computer. It consists of a sequence of 512 bytes located at the first sector of a data storage device such as a hard disk... |
| 0xEF | Intel | EFI System partition EFI System Partition The EFI System partition is a partition on a data storage device that is used by machines that adhere to the Extensible Firmware Interface. It contains the boot loader programs for all operating systems installed on the device, device driver files for other devices, and system utility programs... can be a FAT File Allocation Table File Allocation Table is a computer file system architecture now widely used on many computer systems and most memory cards, such as those used with digital cameras. FAT file systems are commonly found on floppy disks, flash memory cards, digital cameras, and many other portable devices because of... file system |
| 0xFB | VMware VMware VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary .... |
VMware VMFS |
| 0xFC | VMware VMware VMware, Inc. is a company providing virtualization software founded in 1998 and based in Palo Alto, California, USA. The company was acquired by EMC Corporation in 2004, and operates as a separate software subsidiary .... |
VMware VMKCORE |
| 0xFD | GNU/Linux | Linux RAID RAID RAID is a storage technology that combines multiple disk drive components into a logical unit... auto |
| 0xFE | IBM IBM International Business Machines Corporation or IBM is an American multinational technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, United States. IBM manufactures and sells computer hardware and software, and it offers infrastructure, hosting and consulting services in areas... |
IBM IML partition |
This is not an exhaustive list, notably ambiguous or obscure partition types are not covered.