User manual

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

- NTFS

- Ext2

- Ext3

- Ext4

- Linux Swap v. 2

This operation can be accomplished either with the Format Partition Wizard or the Format Partition Dialog.

Wizard Startup

There are several ways to start the Format Partition Wizard:

Express Launcher

 Click the Partitioning button and then select Format Partition.

Launcher

 In the Main menu: select Wizards > Format Partition…

 On the Common Tasks bar: click the Format Partition item of the Wizards menu.

Dialog Startup

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

Launcher

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map;

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

 Select in the Main Menu: Partition > Format Partition.

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

Format Partition.

Wizard Setup

The wizard offers the following steps to accomplish the operation:

 Partition to format. Select a hard disk (if the computer has several hard disks) and then the required partition to

format.