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Formatting A Drive

This document discusses the process of formatting a hard drive. It involves low-level formatting to divide the disk into tracks and sectors, partitioning the drive into logical drives using FDISK, and high-level formatting each partition using the FORMAT command. Common file systems like FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS are also summarized based on their capabilities and advantages for different drive sizes.

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Formatting A Drive

This document discusses the process of formatting a hard drive. It involves low-level formatting to divide the disk into tracks and sectors, partitioning the drive into logical drives using FDISK, and high-level formatting each partition using the FORMAT command. Common file systems like FAT16, FAT32, and NTFS are also summarized based on their capabilities and advantages for different drive sizes.

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Formatting a drive summary

1. Low-level format : the surface of hard disk will divided into circus
called tracks, then track divided into section called sectors, all data are
store on tracks & sector, it will also marks any tracks that cannot store
data.
2. Partitioning is the process of dividing the hard disk into many smaller
disks.
 Command FDISK can help to divide hard disk into many partition
known as logical drives
 Usually C: drive is set to active partition for operating system to
loaded
 Ddo a back up of data ,programmed before partition.
3. High-Level Format after the partition ,formatting must be done using
format command, C drive use command(FORMAT c:/s) to boot up from
system, DOS will automatically find the first drive A drive then C drive to
boot the system, if failed it will shown a display message.
4. Physical Drive are hard disk drive & floppy drives .
5. Logical Drive a small portion of disk assign a drive on the hard disk like
C: ,D:
6. FDISK Command Advantage
 Create manipulate partition or large partition on your hard disk
7. Format is to create more space to keep data
8. FAT16 used for small capacity hard disk & only able to format up to 2
gb
9. FAT32 to handle larger size of hard disk
10. NTFS have below advantage

 Larger capacity hard disk


 Enhanced Security
 Disk Quotas
 Compression
 Encryption
 Able to read both FAT16 & FAT 32 while FAT 16 are not able to
access FAT32 & NTFS

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