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The harddisk (aka hardrive) being reformated refers to the process of reinstalling the operating system. This is basically a process of taking your computer, and installing it like it was the first day you got it, with nothing on it, no software, plugins. It is completely cleaned.
Formatting a disk will erase anything in it and installs information that tells the computer Operating System how to locate everything on the disk. This is true for floppy disks, hard drives, CD's and DVD's, however each is slightly different in how it prepares these.
Formatting a flash drive or usb drive is the same thing as any other hard drive or disk. Formatting by definition is a brand new disk or usb flash drive that has not been formatted by the manufacture. This is just getting the disk ready to receive information and setting it up for your computers operating system to read the information. Re- formatting is when a disk or usb flash drive has been already formatted-but you are either needing a clean disk or a format that the operating system you are using can read.
Re-formatting is probably what you are referring to and this will erase everything "including Viruses", and prepares the disk for a clean install or new information. With any formatting the computer is checking for bad sectors and fixing or moving them so that the disk is ope-ratable. So basically any formatting on any recordable disk is basically cleaning and removing old information, and getting it ready for new information.
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What is hard disk formatting?
Hard disk formatting means preparing new space for data storage. This is by creating tracks and sectors in the disk.
Formatting divides a disk into what?
it does not divide a disk by necessity. you can chose, when formatting, to divide the disk into partitions, but this is not necessary. default is that you have no partitions (which is technically the same as 1 partition).
True statement about formatting a floppy disk for the first time?
Formatting prepares a floppy disk to store data
What is the process of preparing a disk for use an creates tracks and sectors is called?
This is called "Disk Formatting" "Formatting"
What is .udf?
Universal Disk Formatting
What is the disk formatting used for?
It wipes out data on the hard drive disk.
What is the process that marks the location of tracks and sectors on a disk?
A low-level format is the process that marks the location of tracks and sectors on a disk. A disk cannot be partitioned or formatted until a low-level format is completed.
What is the difference between deleting the data from a floppy disk and formatting the disk?
When you delete a file on a filesystem all that is really done is that the disk "forgets" where the data is stored. It remains on the disk until it is overwritten. Formatting is a more technical term than most people understand. A common misconception is that formatting is simply deleting all data on a disc. In fact formatting is more of a "reconfiguration" of the disk. Formatting is the process where a system of data storage is applied to the disk. As a bi-product of this the system which remembered the layout of the origonal data is replaced and therefore the data inaccessible. It is however a common feature of most formatting tools to physically destroy the data as part of the formatting process.
Is backup the process of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors?
No, backup is most certainly not that. Formatting is the process fo dividing the disk into tracks and Sectors.
What is the process of dividing a disk into tracks and sectors so data and information can be stored on it?
formatting
Process of marking tracks and sectors to prepare the disk to receive data is called the disk?
The process of marking tracks and sectors to prepare the disk to receive data is called formatting. During formatting, the disk is organized and divided into individual storage units that can be written and read by the computer's operating system. This prepares the disk for storing files and other data.
What is the difference between partitioning and formatting?
disk partitioning is the act of dividing a hard disk into multiple logical storage units referred to mas part ions to treat one disk as if it were multiple disks. disk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage disk for initial use.
