To delete a block device, the program sets the 16-byte partition entry that contained the System ID byte, to 0. If in the same extended boot record there exists a partition entry with System ID of 05h, indicating that another extended volume exists, this information is copied to the 05h partition entry of the previous extended boot record. (See the following figure for further information.)

Note: There is one exception to this rule. If the deleted logical block device is at the beginning of the extended DOS partition, only the partition entry indicating the device type is set to 0. The 05h pointer information is to be left in place.