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How can I restore my "Unknown" partition type, back to NTFS?

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Mar 15, 202661459 views
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Lately I've been having trouble restoring my PC after uninstalling GRUB, and an Ubuntu install from it. Usually I don't encounter any problems when doing this, but this time is different. My Windows XP (NTFS) partition is listed as "Other" in Partition Magic, and "Unknown" in GParted rather than "N…

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should be able to "fix" this problem easily; something like this should "work": However, it's possible that in addition to the partition type being changed, the partition positions (start, end) were also corrupted. TestDisk should detect these issue…

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