This section contains a set of options that will be taken into account during partitioning operations.
The user can activate the following modes:
- 64 KB cluster is the smallest amount of disk space that can be allocated to hold a file. All file systems used by Windows organize hard disks based on clusters, which consist of one or more contiguous sectors. The smaller the cluster size, the more efficiently a disk stores information. If no cluster size is specified during formatting, Windows picks defaults based on the size of the volume. These defaults are selected to reduce the amount of space that is lost and the amount of fragmentation on the volume. A cluster is also called an allocation unit. size for FAT16 partitions. Only Windows NT 4.0/2000/XP/2003 support 64 KB clusters.
- Request confirmation before partition deletion.
- Request confirmation when converting FAT16 to FAT32 during such partitioning operations as copy disk/partition, restore disk/partition.
- Surface test level. The option affects the following operations: format partition, copy partition, restore partition, retest the surface. While performing the surface test, the program detects corrupted sectors and marks them as unusable.