CREATE AN ADDITIONAL SHARE NAME FOR A FOLDER

7. On the completion page, click Finish to create and format the logical drive.

Figure 10-4 shows an extended partition on Disk 1 that contains a 502 MB logical drive

and 612 MB of remaining free space.

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Viewing extended and logical partitions in Disk Management.

Formatting Volumes

Formatting a basic or dynamic volume with a file system prepares the volume to

accept data. Unformatted volumes contain no file system and are not accessible by

using Windows Explorer or any other application.

You can format volumes in the following ways:

By using Disk Management and formatting the new volume as it is being created

By using Disk Management, right-clicking an existing volume, and then selecting

Format

By using Windows Explorer, right-clicking the drive letter, and then selecting For-

mat

By using a command prompt, using the Format.exe command, and selecting the

appropriate parameters

If you format an existing volume that contains data, all data is lost. Windows XP pro-

tects itself by preventing you from formatting the system and boot partition for the

operating system by using any of the built-in Windows utilities.

Formatting options, shown in Figure 10-5, include the following:

Volume Label The character name for a volume of up to 11 characters. This is the

name that is displayed in Disk Management and Windows Explorer. You should

choose a label that describes the type of information that is stored on the volume,

such as System for the volume that contains the operating system or Documents

for a volume that contains user documents.