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<blockquote data-quote="LateAdopter" data-source="post: 1075986" data-attributes="member: 412234">I can only help a bit because I probably have none of the software that you are using, but I can give you more of the story... The partition type is a single byte value in the partition table in the MBR for each partition.For NTFS it is 07 hex and for FAT32 it is 0C hex. There are other values that are used for FAT32 depending on the circumstances. e.g. EF hex is an EFI boot partition.I think generally that if you create a new partition and format it in one go with a disk management tool then it will write the correct partition type to the MBR.If you REFORMAT an existing partition to a different filesystem then the value is not changed in the MBRWhat actually happens probably depends on the particular software you are using. I don't know of any user type software for reading and modifying the values.With a hard disk the simplest way is to delete the partition and recreate it whenever you change the format type.Since these Octagon/Edision boxes automount all of the partitions when you plug the device in, if one partition&nbsp; fails it may interfere with mounting any others.I recommend, as suggested above, that you start again with just one newly created partition on the drive. Don't reformat to a different filesystem unless you can find some software for modifying the values in the MBR.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="LateAdopter, post: 1075986, member: 412234"] I can only help a bit because I probably have none of the software that you are using, but I can give you more of the story... The partition type is a single byte value in the partition table in the MBR for each partition. For NTFS it is 07 hex and for FAT32 it is 0C hex. There are other values that are used for FAT32 depending on the circumstances. e.g. EF hex is an EFI boot partition. I think generally that if you create a new partition and format it in one go with a disk management tool then it will write the correct partition type to the MBR. If you REFORMAT an existing partition to a different filesystem then the value is not changed in the MBR What actually happens probably depends on the particular software you are using. I don't know of any user type software for reading and modifying the values. With a hard disk the simplest way is to delete the partition and recreate it whenever you change the format type. Since these Octagon/Edision boxes automount all of the partitions when you plug the device in, if one partition fails it may interfere with mounting any others. I recommend, as suggested above, that you start again with just one newly created partition on the drive. Don't reformat to a different filesystem unless you can find some software for modifying the values in the MBR. [/QUOTE]

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