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 Volume label. Enter a label for the selected partition in this textual field. It is an irrelevant parameter usually

used for drive identification.

 Drive letter assignment. The pull-down list contains vacant drive letters that can be associated with the newly

formatted partition.

In addition, there is the possibility to make further detailed settings (although the default values will do in most cases).

To activate the advance mode, you need to click the More options button at the foot of the dialog page. Depending on

the chosen file system, the following options become available:

 Use OS built-in routine. Mark the option to restrict the available values according to the used OS.

 Whether the surface test will be performed. Define the level of the surface check to make the program find bad

and unstable sectors and mark them unusable in the file system metadata.

 The amount of sectors per boot. This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 and FAT32 file systems. Set

the number of sectors to be reserved for the boot area on the partition with this spinner control.

 The amount of root entries. This parameter is available exclusively for FAT16 file system. Set the maximum

amount of files/directories to be placed in the Root Directory on the FAT16 partition.

 The amount of sectors per cluster. Define the Cluster Size for the formatted partition with this spinner control.

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Number of available options depends on the selected file system type.

Result

After the operation is completed you receive a fully functional partition.

Formatting Partitions

Any partition should contain some file system to be used for keeping data. The process of installing a file system is

commonly known as formatting. A huge variety of file systems have been developed these days.

Supported File Systems

The program provides the ability to format partitions of the following file systems:

- FAT12 & FAT16

- FAT32

- HFS+

- NTFS

- Ext2