How to Format a Partition?
How to Format a Partition?
What is Partition Genius?
Partition Genius tool can help you quickly and easily create partitions on your hard disk for storing valuable information such as data files, applications, and operating systems. Storing information in separate partitions helps you organize and protect your data, safely run multiple operating systems, and reclaim wasted disk space.
Partition Genius enables you to secure your data by physically separating it from other files. Separate partitions also make backups to networks and removable drives easy.
When should you use Partition Genius to format partitions?
Want to delete all the data from one partition quickly? Considering clean up the whole partition to contain some large files? Want to recover the logical bad sectors (physical bad sectors are unfixable through formatting) completely？ Relax. All these problems can be easily solved by the powerful Partition Genius tool.
Procedure of dealing with Partition Genius:
- To begin, please double click Spotmau icon and enter PowerSuite 2009’s interface, follow these steps: Self Service —>PowerSuite 2009 Wincare—> Partition Genius, then you can have the interface looked just like the followed picture.
The general condition of hard disk(s) (including capacity, free space, and so forth) will be shown on the interface in a list and a block area as above.
2. You can select a designated volume by clicking it either in the list or in the block area.
3. The functions button on the top of interface is also listed in the pop-up menu when you right click the designated volume in the block area.
4. FORMATTING: When you need to format a certain partition, please right click the designated volume in the block area and choose “Format…” in the pop-up menu. Here we select (F : ).
5. Before formatting.
6. It will pop up a window to remind you of the data loss after the formatting. Click 
to go on formatting or “Cancel” to abort it.
7. If you go on with the operation, you will see a dialog as followed. Please tick the “Quick Format” then the “Start”.
8. Tips: formatting will cause a thorough data loss! Please bear in mind to backup all the useful data before this operation. If not necessary, we don’t recommend you to format you volumes or disks.
9. If the following window is shown, formatting completes.
10. After Formatting:
NOTES:
If you want to learn more about partition, you can turn to User Manual where you can find detail and useful information related to partition, such as the type of partition, file system, and so on.