Definition: Low-level formatting


The process of creating sectors on the disk surface; this permits the operating system to use the regions needed to create the file structure. Also called initialization. Low-level formatting is often performed at manufacturing facilities or in highend technciacl data facilities. There is no need (in most scenarios) for a typical consumer to low-level format a hard drive.




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Bit

The smallest unit of computer data, a bit represents one of two states; 'on' or 'off' (or '1' or '0'). On magnetic media such as a hard drive or floppy disk, an electro-mechanically generated unit of magnatisim will represent a bit. A floppy disk can hold millions of bits.

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