User manual

 Select in the Main menu: Partition > Convert file system…

 On the Explorer bar: click on the current file system type.

 Call the popup menu for the selected partition (right click of the mouse button) on the Disk Map or on the

Partition List, then select the menu item: Convert File System…

3. Initially the program suggests some consistent values for all parameters. In most cases, you can just press the

Convert button to confirm the operation.

 New file system. From the pull-down list choose a file system you would like to convert to. Actually the

program only displays variants available for the operation, taking into account the current parameters of the

selected partition and limitations of the used file system.

 New cluster size. Define the cluster size for the partition. This parameter can have a profound effect on the

overall performance. In a nutshell, larger clusters waste more space, but generally provide for slightly better

performance, because of less fragmentation. So be particularly careful with it.

The cluster size value is expressed in sectors per cluster. To get it in Kbytes, please divide it

into half.

You may only decrease the current cluster size.

 Surface test level. 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.

4. The operation will be performed immediately after confirmation.

Changing Cluster Size

Cluster size is one of the crucial parameters of any file system. Its value implicitly affects the performance of the files

input-output activity since it defines the size of the file system metadata. Besides, the so-called waste space factor also

depends on the cluster size.

In order to change the cluster size of a partition you should take the following steps:

Launcher

1. Select a partition on the Disk Map.

2. Call the Change Cluster Size dialog to set up the operation. There are several ways to do it:

 Select in the Main menu: Partition > Modify > Change Cluster Size…