This article describes you partitions as used in Microsoft-DOS, Windows and Linux on computer systems like logical hard disk partitioning schemes used in other OS.A computer hard disk drive can contain up to 4 logical hard disk partitions. Each partition can be a primary partition. All these logical hard disk partitions are described by 16 byte that comprises the logical hard disk Partition Table which is located in the Master Boot Record.
The “type” of a logical hard disk partition is recognized by a 1 byte code found in table entry of that logical hard disk partition. Many of these codes (such as 0 x 05 and 0 x 0F) may be used to signify the existence of an extended logical hard disk partition, but most of codes are used by OS that examine the Logical hard disk partition tables to decide if a logical partition contains a filesystem they can mount/access for accessing the data.
Once a specific logical hard disk partition’s type has been recognized, other information of that partition and about its purpose may be found. Like some codes are used to hide a logical hard disk partition’s contents from different OS. Though, if an Operating System or some hard disk drive partitioning tool has been programmed to check the boot sectors of any logical hard disk partition, then the file system of that particular partition may no longer hidden.