[Gptfdisk-general] gdisk: Dell utility partition type code DE00 not recognized

[Christopher C. <chr...@gm...>]

Just an observation while converting to GPT an so I could resize some partitions
from macOS’ Disk Utility on an old hard drive pulled from a Dell laptop but now
used for portable storage. gdisk does not recognize the old partition type code
of the Dell utility partition, DE00.

I haven’t researched whether if Dell continues to use this kind of partition on
UEFI systems, nor if there is a new type code to assign; otherwise, since the
underlying partition is FAT, maybe it can be converted to always use the Windows
GUID rather than the current OS.

I don’t imagine this being an issue since the partition is no longer be
bootable/accessible from the original system—I’ll probably ignore or delete the
partition anyways. However if this does turn out to be an issue, it might be
something I can come up with a patch for.

Hope this helps,

Christopher A. Chavez