Disk Map Options

Recovery Environment's Disk Map tab offers four right-click menus depending on which item you select:

• Disk: Listed in a column at the left of the tab.
• Primary Partition: Each of its primary partitions appears to the right of the disk and is indicated with a blue bar.
• Extended Partition: Each extended partition of the disk is indicated with a green outline.
• Unallocated Space: This space is indicated with a grey bar.

A new disk begins with all its space as "unallocated". Once you create a partition from the unallocated space, Disk Map labels the unformatted partition with the name "unknown" and the partition type "unrecognized". Format the partition as NTFS or FAT32 and Disk Map includes that text onscreen and changes the grey bar indicator to blue.

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