Micron Technology Transport LT Changing PartitionMagic Preferences, Ignore OS/2 EA Errors on FAT

Software Utilities PartitionMagic

Changing PartitionMagic Preferences

You can tell when changes have been made but not yet applied to your system when: (1) the Apply option appears in the main window, and (2) the status box in the lower right corner of the main window indicates that operations are pending.

To apply changes to your system, click Apply or click on the toolbar. If you wish to discard the changes and start over, click on the toolbar.

You can also apply and discard changes using the General menu.

From the General menu, you can change various program preferences. Each preference is a toggle and, like a light switch, is either on (enabled) or off (disabled). A check mark next to a preference indicates it is enabled.

System supports FAT32 indicates whether the current Operating System supports FAT32 partitions. Windows 95 OEM Service Release 2, Windows 98, and Windows NT 2000 support FAT32 partitions; other Operating Systems do not.

This preference lets you create FAT partitions with 64 KB clusters, which enables Windows NT to support large hard disks. Because DOS, Windows 3.x, Windows 95, and Windows 98 do not support cluster sizes larger than 32 KB, you should never access a 64 KB partition using these Operating Systems. You should only use 64 KB partitions with Windows NT.

NOTE: If you are using multiple Operating Systems, we recommend not using 64 KB clusters.

To prevent you from inadvertently creating partitions with 64 KB clusters, this preference is disabled every time you exit PartitionMagic.

When enabled, the 64 KB cluster size is available in the Resize/Move Partition and Resize Clusters screens.

To enable or disable this preference:

	1.	In the main window, click General > Preferences.
	2.	Click Allow 64K FAT Clusters for Windows NT.
	3.	Click OK.
Ignore OS/2 EA Errors on FAT	This preference tells PartitionMagic whether or not to ignore OS/2 Extended
	Attribute errors when it checks a FAT partition.

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