2 years, 5 months ago
Can I use fdisk in lunux to change the boot flag on my external usb drive without losing data?
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Yes you can modify the data for the master boot record of the drive (internal or external) to set a different partition as the active one (flag 80) from fdisk without losing data. You should read the man page for your linux/unix distribution carefully before modifying the partition table.
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Thanks for the reply. I ended up just going ahead and trying this a few weeks ago and it worked just fine. No lost data.