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→Formatting a Volume using Disk Management
During the volume creation process outlined in the preceeding sections of this chapter it was mentioned that a new partition on a disk drive may be created without formatting it for a particular file system. This is known as a raw partition and will be listed in the disk manager as having a RAW file system type.
Before the volume can be used it must be formatted. This can be achieved using either the Disk management interface or from the command line using the ''diskpart'' tool. To perform the format from Disk Management simply select the desired volume form from the graphical display, right click and select ''Format...''. The format dialog will appear requesting the file system type, volume name, allocation unit size and volume label. Options to perform a quick format (which does not perform an error check) and enable disk compression (for NTFS file systems only) are also provided.
Once the desired settings are selected initiate the format simply by clicking on ''OK'' and then respond affirmatively to the warning dialog.
