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  2. diskpart - Wikipedia

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    The diskpart utility is used for partitioning internal hard drives but can also format removable media such as flash drives. [ 4 ] It has long been possible, theoretically, to partition removable drives – such as flash drives or memory cards – from within Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP; e.g., during system installation.

  3. format (command) - Wikipedia

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    With this option, Format writes bootstrap code to the first sector of the volume (and possibly elsewhere as well). Format always writes a BIOS Parameter Block to the first sector, with or without the /S option. Another option (/Q) allows for what Microsoft calls "Quick Format". With this option the command will not perform steps 2 and 3 above.

  4. Drive letter assignment - Wikipedia

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    JP Software's 4DOS command line processor supports drive letters beyond Z: in general, but since some of the letters clash with syntactical extensions of this command line processor, they need to be escaped in order to use them as drive letters. Windows 9x (MS-DOS 7.0/MS-DOS 7.1) added support for LASTDRIVE=32 and LASTDRIVEHIGH=32 as well.

  5. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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    A block, a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of storage that is read from and written to a disk by a disk driver.The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. the IBM 350 disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 six-bit characters) but starting with the 1301 [8] IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particular track could have blocks ...

  6. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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    Windows March 4, 2023 DiskGenius Eassos Proprietary software Yes Windows August 1, 2023 Disk Utility: Apple: Proprietary software Yes macOS: diskpart: Microsoft: Proprietary software Yes Windows NT family: fdisk (FreeDOS) Brian Reifsnyder Free software Yes FreeDOS: fdisk (Microsoft) Microsoft Proprietary software No MS-DOS, Windows: fdisk (OS/2 ...

  7. convert (command) - Wikipedia

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    convert is an external command first introduced with Windows 2000. [2] If the drive cannot be locked (for example, the drive is the system volume or the current drive) the command gives the option to convert the drive the next time the computer is restarted.

  8. File Allocation Table - Wikipedia

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    [38] [39] The built-in Windows shell disk format tool on Windows NT arbitrarily only supports volume sizes up to 32 GB, [nb 4] but Windows supports reading and writing to preexisting larger FAT32 volumes, and these can be created with the command prompt, PowerShell or third-party tools, [41] or by formatting the volume on a non-Windows system ...

  9. SUBST - Wikipedia

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    The command is also available in FreeDOS [5] and PTS-DOS. [6] The Windows SUBST command is available in supported versions of the command line interpreter cmd.exe. [7] In Windows NT, SUBST uses DefineDosDevice() to create the disk mappings. The JOIN command is the "opposite" of SUBST, because JOIN will take a drive letter and make it appear as ...