Re: partitioning and use thereof

Paul wrote:
> 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
   Both exFAT and NTFS acted the same way; i get a new partition RAW by 
default.
   Did not try CMD, so
..seems to want to work with format N: but slow as all heck.
   So tried format N: /q and got the following messages:
Creating file system structures.
The first NTFS boot sector is unreadabe.
All NTFS boot sectors are unwriteable. Cannot continue.
Format failed.

   So, maybe the SLOW way or NO WAY.

    Thanks.


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