What is a Type 44 partition?

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I bought a used harddrive and when I ran Fdisk, it said it was a
"Non-Dos". I loaded Partition Magic and it showed up as a Type 44.
I just removed the partition and started over. The drive works fine.

I'm curious though what this Type 44 is. I did a web search and it
said it's a "GoBack partition". Great, but what the heck is a GoBack
partition? It was not clearly explained and took me to the Symantec
website for unknown reasons...... I'm just curious.

One other thing, when I use Partioion Magic, why do all drives end up
with a small unused section? (usually at the beginning of the drive).
It shows to be 7.8 megs on this and another 10 gig drive.

George
 
I bought a used harddrive and when I ran Fdisk, it said it was a
"Non-Dos". I loaded Partition Magic and it showed up as a Type 44.
I just removed the partition and started over. The drive works fine.

I'm curious though what this Type 44 is. I did a web search and it
said it's a "GoBack partition". Great, but what the heck is a GoBack
partition? It was not clearly explained and took me to the Symantec
website for unknown reasons...... I'm just curious.

One other thing, when I use Partioion Magic, why do all drives end up
with a small unused section? (usually at the beginning of the drive).
It shows to be 7.8 megs on this and another 10 gig drive.
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44 GoBack partition

GoBack is a utility that records changes made to the disk, allowing you to
view or go back to some earlier state. It takes over disk I/O like a Disk
Manager would, and stores its logs in its own partition.
 
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