HDDRIVER format partition ?

[exxos]

Unless I am going blind, there does not seem to be any way to format a partition in HDDRIVER ?

Problem is I have a copy of all my files on D:, and C: seems corrupted (not opening). So really need to format it, but can't

[stephen_usher]

Yes, there's no explicit FAT format option that I've found. It only does it when you change the partition table.

Unfortunately it seems that all the HD utilities (that I've tried) on the ST do something similar rather than divorcing partition formatting from partitioning.

[Steve]

Can you not just re-partition it. As far as I know you shouldn't lose your data on D:

[exxos]

Can you not just re-partition it. As far as I know you shouldn't lose your data on D:

I'd assume it would trash everything...

[exxos]

Yes, there's no explicit FAT format option that I've found. It only does it when you change the partition table.

Unfortunately it seems that all the HD utilities (that I've tried) on the ST do something similar rather than divorcing partition formatting from partitioning.

That sucks

[mrbombermillzy]

Would something like KnifeST be worth looking at?

[exxos]

Would something like KnifeST be worth looking at?

I did wonder if Diamond edge could possibly fix it

[exxos]

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It be quicker just to format the whole thing and start again

[stephen_usher]

Drive D is the one with problems?

Not wise to try to put your disk utility on that, especially as every write to the drive is likely to corrupt it even more.

[Steve]

Can you not just re-partition it. As far as I know you shouldn't lose your data on D:

I'd assume it would trash everything...

Trash everything? What do you mean, you want to format it anyway. Someone told me recently that re-partitioning a single partition leaves other partitions intact. I haven't tried it myself but they told me that this was the case.