The program enables to obtain in-depth information on the properties of hard disks/partitions. Besides the general information, such as capacity, used space or file system type it provides the possibility to get info on a hard disk geometry Traditionally, the usable space of a hard disk is logically divided into cylinders, cylinders are divided into tracks (
or heads), and tracks are divided into sectors. The triad of values [
Sectors-per-Track], [
Tracks-per-Cylinder], [
Amount-of-Cylinders] is usually named the Hard Disk Geometry or C/H/S geometry. Tracks and cylinders are enumerated from "
0", while sectors are enumerated from "
1". These disk parameters play an essential role in the DOS Partitioning scheme. Modern hardware uses an advanced scheme for the linear addressing of sectors, which assumes that all on-disk sectors are continuously enumerated from "
0". To allow backward compatibility with older standards, modern hard disks can additionally emulate the C/H/S geometry., 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, exact partition location, etc.
In order to view properties of a partition/hard disk the user should take the following steps:
1. Select a partition/hard disk on the Disk Map.
2. Call the popup menu for the selected partition/hard disk (
right click of the mouse button) on the
Disk Map or on the List of Partitions, then select the menu item: Properties…
3. The provided information is grouped according to its properties, thus select the required tab and get the information you need.