To format a partition on Windows Vista, partition management software EASEUS Partition Manager Professional Edition will help you. If you don’t satisfied with the partition label, file system or cluster size of the partition, you can change them as you wish. You just need do as follows:

1. Select a hard disk and a partition.

2. Click Partitions > Format.

3. Type the label you want in the Partition Label text box.

4. Select the file system type to be created on a partition after formatting from the Partition Type drop-down list. (FAT/FAT32, NTFS). If the partition is too small or too large, some partition types may not be available.

5. Choose the Cluster Size (512 bytes, 1,2,4...64KB) from drop-down list. (Smaller cluster size makes less wasting of disk space. The smaller cluster size is, the bigger file allocation table (FAT) will be. The bigger the FAT is, the slower the operation system works with the disk.)

Click OK to confirm that you want to format the partition. Then you will create a pending formatting operation.

EASEUS Partition Manager also allows you to perform basic and advanced partition operations on your Windows Vista without data loss, including: resize and move partitions, delete (a or all)partitions, format partitions, hide and unhide partitions, set active partition, etc. Changes of partition on Windows Vista can be previewed before applying to hard disk.

Before format partitions on Windows Vista, you'd better back up your important data for partition formatting operation destroys all the data on this partition, including files and folders! Take special care when performing this operation. Copy or back them up somewhere else with EASEUS Disk Copy, or your other favorite backup scripts.

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