Re: partitioning and use thereof

On 10/8/2021 2:35 AM, Robert Baer wrote:

>    Grumble grumble trouble in River City.
>    Followed
> https://www.howtogeek.com/74335/how-to-dual-boot-windows-7-and-windows-8/
>    up to "Once you click the shrink button Windows will shrink your drive. Once it has completed shrinking your partition, the Disk Manager will display this new space with a black header meaning it is an empty partition, you now need to give it a file system. To format the drive with a file system right click on the black space and select “New Simple Volume”.
> 
>    So set the size then drive letter.
>    The format partition step of the wizard is where it goes bonkers.
>    After supposedly formatting, i get the wonderful killing message box:
> "The format did not complete successfully     OK".
>    Most definitely *NOT* ok.
> 
>    DOA, cannot put anything in second partition.
> 
>    So what program can i use to fix that?
> 
>      Thanks,  R. Baer

You can see in my example here, I tried to format a
partition to FAT32 when the partition was too big
for Microsofts rules to let it happen. Even though
FAT32 formats just fine up to 2.2TB in size using a
third-party tool.

    https://i.postimg.cc/N0znXp3n/formatting-fail.gif

In Disk Management, you can make a new partition RAW,
then resort to command line "format" command, as in the picture.

    Paul