***URGENT*** Help needed with MBR Partition ID type


  1. Posts : 43
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
       #1

    ***URGENT*** Help needed with MBR Partition ID type


    I used Minitool Partition Wizard to migrate my system C: drive to a larger drive. Everything went fine but now that the larger drive is up and running I noticed it made my MBR partition visible and assigned a drive letter to it that belonged to another drive.
    The MBR's partition id type is 0x07 which I assume must be wrong even though the system is running and I'm afraid to change it to another type such as E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE (Microsoft Reserved Partition) or 024DEE41-33E7-11D3-9D69-0008C781F39F (MBR Partition Scheme) for fear of my system not booting up after I do it.
    I'm running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
    Can anyone please help me?!! Minitool isn't answering their chat nor replying to my email yet.
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  2. Posts : 16,162
    7 X64
       #2

    Don't worry.The MBR is not in a partition. I assume you mean the system partition. Type 0x07 is fine. It doesn't matter if it has a drive letter. You can remove the drive letter from the system partition if you wish using disk management or any 3rd party partition manager.
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  3. Posts : 43
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #3

    Are you sure that's all I need to do? In explorer it shows MBR backeps and a file folder named Intel with a couple files in it.
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  4. Posts : 3,788
    win 8 32 bit
       #4

    If you can post a screen shot from disk manager showing all details so we can see. MBR is master boot record not a parition
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  5. Posts : 43
    Windows 7 Ultimate x64
    Thread Starter
       #5

    What it looks like in Minitool Partition Wizard and Windows Disk Management Console



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  6. Posts : 138
    Windows 7 Ultimate x86
       #6

    LunaEros said:
    I used Minitool Partition Wizard to migrate my system C: drive to a larger drive. Everything went fine but now that the larger drive is up and running I noticed it made my MBR partition visible and assigned a drive letter to it that belonged to another drive.
    The MBR's partition id type is 0x07 which I assume must be wrong even though the system is running and I'm afraid to change it to another type such as E3C9E316-0B5C-4DB8-817D-F92DF00215AE (Microsoft Reserved Partition) or 024DEE41-33E7-11D3-9D69-0008C781F39F (MBR Partition Scheme) for fear of my system not booting up after I do it.
    I'm running Windows 7 x64 Ultimate
    Can anyone please help me?!! Minitool isn't answering their chat nor replying to my email yet.
    Greetings Luna,

    You can hide the partition by removing the drive letter.

    Here's a guide from MS:
    BIOS/MBR-based hard drive partitions | Microsoft Docs
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  7. Posts : 2,774
    Windows 7 Professional 64-bit
       #7

    Do not adjust anything within that MBR. And, explorer normally does not show all its contents
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