User manual ACRONIS PARTITIONEXPERT 2003

[. . . ] User's Guide PartitionExpert 2003 Compute with confidence www. acronis. com Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2002. Windows and MS-DOS are registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks and copyrights referred to are the property of their respective owners. Distribution of substantively modified versions of this document is prohibited without the explicit permission of the copyright holder. [. . . ] The bigger the FAT, the slower the operating system works with the disk, having selected Auto, you allow PartitionExpert to automatically determine the cluster size depending on selected file system and partition size. (3) 6. By clicking OK in the Format Partition window you add the pending operation of partition formatting (your actions may only modify an existing operation. See 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). 50 Chapter 4 : Manual Partition Operations Attention!Partition formatting destroys all its data, including files and folders!Take special care when performing this operation. Remember that each operation described must be executed by selecting Operations Commit or clicking pending operations»). Commit Pending Operations (see 2. 4. 4 «Performing 4. 1. 7 Deleting a partition After a partition is deleted its space is added to unallocated disk space. It can be used for a new partition or to resize an existing partition. Select a hard disk and a partition to be deleted, Execute partition deletion by selecting Disk in the Operations sidebar list, or by clicking tition on the toolbar, 3. (1) (2) Delete or a similar item Delete the selected par- Select the deleting method in the Delete Partition window; you can: just delete a hard disk partition (without wiping disk sectors) -- set the switch to Delete partition, delete a hard disk partition and fully wipe partition sectors -- set the switch to Delete partition and destroy data. Delete Partition window Having set the switch to Delete partition and destroy data, enter a number of passes for wiping. Wiping unallocated disk space means multiple writing of special data to hard disk sectors. Acronis PartitionExpert features a rather simple wiping algorithm. During each pass a symbol sequence or logical zeroes (0x00) or ones (0xFF) are written to unallocated space sectors. Only logical zeroes are written during the last pass. The more passes performed, the safer the wiping will be. Acronis offers extremely powerful hard disk/partition wiping software -- Acronis DriveCleanser, featuring strict algorithms for guaranteed confidential information wiping and destruction (see http://www. Copyright © SWsoft, 2000­2002 51 4. 5. Confirm partition deletion by clicking OK in the Delete Partition window; By clicking OK in the Delete Partition window, you add the pending operation of partition deletion (your actions may only undo an existing operation depending on the situation selected see 2. 4. 5 «Modifying pending operations»). The new partition structure will be graphically represented in the Acronis PartitionExpert main window. Attention!Deleting a partition destroys all its data, including files and folders!Deleting a system partition will make a PC inoperable. Take special care when performing this operation. Deleting a partition Windows 95/98/Me can change the order of letters assigned to other partitions. As a result, some shortcuts might stop working. [. . . ] A partition table cannot have more than four entries. Main partition table is located in the hard disk MBR, and the other partition tables are called extended. Partition tables are usually stored in the first sector of a cylinder. A disk that is physically a separate device. [. . . ]