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The program distinguishes between the following types of known file systems:

- FAT16/32

- NTFS

- Linux Ext2/3/4

- Linux ReiserFS

- Apple HFS

Status Bar

This is the bottom part of the main window. The Status Bar displays menu hints, for each item the cursor points to.

The user can hide (or show) the bar with the appropriate Main Menu item: View > Status Bar.

Settings Overview

The Settings dialog is available from the Main Menu: Tools > Settings. All the settings are grouped into several sections,

which functions are described in the following paragraphs. The list of sections is placed on the left side of the dialog. By

selecting a section from the list, you can open a set of options.

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To get a detailed description to any setting, control, or field of the program just click the

hint button and then the object you need.

General Options

This section contains a set of general options that will be taken into account during any operation carried out with the

program:

 Partition Alignment mode. There are three options you can choose from:

- Legacy. DOS and Windows OSes before Vista required that partitions had to be aligned to the “disk cylinder”

or 63 sectors to address and access sectors correctly. It was OK, until 4K hard drives came into scene. When

partitions are aligned this way on this type of disk, each logical cluster is linked to two physical 4K clusters,

thus resulting in a double read-write operation.