FW: Formatting the storage device with the new custom file system .

> Before anyone can actually begin to design and implement a filesystem

driver. You would expect to have a formatted partition or an image of a
partition with the custom file system, for testing purposes.

Is there anybody out there which could advise me on how to go about
formatting and creating an image to disk with the desired file system? I
assume that I would have to create my own custom format.exe utility, and
that the original format.exe found with windows 9x and NT operating system
actually operates independently from the filesystem driver? and directly
communicates to the storage device itself?

Thanks in advance!
James