Which are the default partition flags for Packard Bell Easynote laptops?

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How should the partition flags be set for the default partitions of Packard Bell laptops?

In my case, the model is an EasyNote LJ65.

Which partition should have the boot flag on ? Which one the diag flag ? Any should have hidden flag ?

Can someone check a working configuration with gParted or equivalent?

I'm kinda curious what happened to the defaults, and how they might have gotten changed. Its PRETTY hard to muck those up accidentally. — Journeyman Geek, Jun 27 '13 at 15:29
Judging by no replies, upvotes or marks as answers, I'd say we will never find out. — user88311, Jun 27 '13 at 18:36
@Journeyman Geek: I had to alter the defaults for the following reason. The drive which had bad sectors was cloned to a larger one, and the files where then extracted to one additional partition, which was appended at the end of the disk. I had to set the first three partitions as hidden, so that I could access the last partition from within Windows when the disk was in an external enclosure. Else, Windows could not access to the last partition and mount it. I had forgotten if the "diag" flag was for "PQservice" or for "System Reserved". — Ambrosio, Jun 27 '13 at 21:36

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 27 '13 at 14:10

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Size is usually a give away as to what goes wheres, and name.

Windows - Boot

PQservice - hidden (It's how you restore to factory state)

System Reserved - diag (Unless you don't want your system to boot)

answered Jun 27 '13 at 14:10

user88311

[Diag is used to indicate the partition is used for diagnostics / recovery.](http://gparted.org/display-doc.php%3Fname%3Dhelp-manual) – Omar Tariq Nov 19 '16 at 14:41

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