The sector identification on a disk that the drive uses to locate sectors for reading and writing. Today's IDE and SCSI hard disks are low-level formatted at the factory. See format program. THIS ...

Software that initializes a disk. There are two formatting levels on a magnetic medium such as a hard disk or floppy disk. The low-level format initializes the disk surface by creating the physical ...

A Quick Format will rebuild the file system, volume label, and cluster size. A Full Format will delete the files, rebuild the file system, volume label, cluster size & scan the partition for bad ...

ok i've got an old quantum 3.2Gb HDD which has got a few bad sectors but windows 2000 will not successfully complete a NTFS format on the partition. I've tried to format it with fat32 and still the ...

Hi,<br> Quick question! Does anyone know if stopping a low level format is bad, specifically Darik's Boot and Nuke. I started it, but it is going veeeeery slow sooo I think I want to try something ...