Viewing Partitions and Formats

Item

Description

Action and Partition

The type of action being performed on a partition - System formatting or Data formatting.

The assigned partition letter.

Step

The current phase being performed on a partition:

• Assigned - Job in queue to be executed

• System formatting - C partition being formatted

• Formatting - Non-system partition being formatted

• Done - Job successfully executed

• Error - Job failed

Status

The current status during job execution:

• Assigned - Job in queue to be executed

• Active - Job being executed

• Done - Job successfully executed

• Error - Job failed

The following fields contain values only after the partition has been formatted.

Capacity

The partition’s total capacity

Free

The partition’s unallocated disk space