partitioning
Interleaving.
reed memory
Low-level formatting
SECTOR!
It splits information in pieces and writes it in different parts of a hard drive. This is one of reason where the fragmentation comes from.
The first sector on the Hard Drive
The smallest storage access unit on an IDE hard drive is a sector.
A sector has a fixed size; it will always be 512 bytes. A cluster can be as small as one sector, and can be as big as it needs to be.
The head.
BIOS setup
The reserved are consists of the volume boot sector, often abbreviated as simply boot sector.
sector prof for answer; a sector is a division of a storage medium on a hard drive diskette that is a wedge shaped section of one of the circular tracks