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Steve wrote: 05 Jun 2025 15:51 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.

frank.lukas wrote: 05 Jun 2025 15:59 CORRECT.PRG from the kobold package can repair the FAT´s of a single partition but all corrupted data will be lost ...

exxos wrote: 05 Jun 2025 14:38 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 :pullhair:

Initializing after clicking on "Init" clears all data structures on a partition. This is comparable with parti- tioning but only affects a single partition. This operation is only useful in special cases, for instance, if a par - tition holds files that cannot be deleted correctly for some reason. Additionally the logical sector size and the number of sectors per cluster may be changed. You should only attempt to change these data if you have the required expert knowledge.

don_apple wrote: 05 Jun 2025 16:17 Depending on the version of HDDRIVER you are using there should be an "Init" button in the "Edit Partitions" dialog box.

Here is the description of the function from the HDDRIVER manual for version 12.53: