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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 formatted to the specified file system.

Deleting Partitions

With the Delete Partition Dialog you can delete a partition on a hard disk partitioned with the DOS partitioning

scheme. Unlike the majority of other utilities (Windows Disk Manager included), the program can not only remove

references to the deleted partition from the Partition Table, thus making it unavailable for the operating system, but

also enables to irreversibly destroy its data. This feature will guarantee security of your personal information.

Startup

In order to start the operation you should take the following steps:

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map;

2. Call the Delete Partition Dialog to set up the operation. There are several ways to do it:

- Select in the Main Menu: Partition > Delete Partition.

- Call the popup menu for the selected partition (right click of the mouse button) then select the menu

item: Delete Partition.

Setup

Initially the program suggests you just to remove references to the selected partition from the Partition Table.