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• Partition Size. Define the size (in Mb) of the new partition.

• Free space before. Define the position (in Mb) of the new partition relative to the beginning of the block of

free space.

• Free space after. Define the amount of trailing free space (in Mb) at the end of the new partition.

Partition size and position may also be defined by using the drag-and-drop technique. To do

that, just carry out the required operation on the Disk Map. The virtual operations are to be

available.

• File system for new partition. From the pull-down list select a file system the newly created partition will be

formatted to, otherwise the partition will remain unformatted (so that it will not be ready to use).

• 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.

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

Result

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