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tool, diskpart, offers options not available in Disk Management. Check out

Chapter 16 for more details.

The last screen of the New Simple Volume Wizard asks for the type of

format you want to use for this partition (see Figure 9-36). If your partition is

32 GB or less, you can make the drive FAT32 or NTFS. Windows requires

NTFS on any partition greater than 32 GB. Although FAT32 supports

partitions up to 2 TB, Microsoft wants you to use NTFS on larger partitions

and creates this limit. With today’s multi-terabyte drives, there’s no good

reason to use anything other than NTFS in Windows. In addition to the file

system selection, you are offered a checkbox to perform a quick format or a

full format. A quick format does not test the blocks as part of the format

process, while the full format option does. (See “Formatting a Partition” later

in this chapter for more details.)

Figure 9-36 Choosing a file system type

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