[Tabvla]

I am looking for a Microsoft technical document that deals with the processes around disk Initialization; Partitioning and Formatting in a Windows XP environment using the built-in Windows tools.

The type of document that I am looking for should explain in technical detail the exact processes that are involved when the above procedures are run.

If any Forum member has a link to such a document I would be grateful if they would post it in this thread.

TiA

 

[Dan O]

Have you checkout Disk Management?

See: http://support.microsoft.com/kb/309000

 

[Tabvla]

Hi Dan

Thanks for your prompt reply. Yes I am very familiar with Disk Management, it is a tool which I use almost daily in work.

What I am actually looking for is a technical paper on exactly what the Windows utilities physically do during the entire Initialization; Partition; Format process. I must assume that most of us who are technically involved with computers on a daily basis have a fairly good understanding of this process in "theory". We all know what these processes do and why they do what they do. What I want is a real in depth technical document that explains the actual physical processes that are applied to the media during these processes.

I have searched the Microsoft archives with every search argument that I can imagine but have only been able to source the vanilla type documents that discuss these processes in a theoretical sense. These do not deal with the actual physical processes that are taking place.

 

[Dan O]

What you are asking for I guess is the NTFS drive partition specifications.

For details and links for it see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NTFS