Sounds like LVM under OS/2
though there are decent recovery utilities available, and there is a partition table; the difference is that LVM uses previously unused areas to store the volume information.
So far, my experiences with moving disks from one system to another has been perfect, but I'm far from having moved all possible permutations around.
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