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The term formatting or re-formatting is use when you are talking about a large area like a whole hard drive. For instance you could format your hard drive and it would be wiped clean and then you would have to re-format it to get it to work again. Deleting data is used when you are talking about deleted something small like a program (uninstall) or deleting old word documents.

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