Physical Formatting

Physical formatting, or low-level formatting, is the division of hard disk platters into tracks, sectors, and cylinders. Tracks, sectors, and cylinders define the divisions in which a hard disk accesses a data from a hard disk platter. This was considered to be a dangerous task to be performed on older discs for possible surface damage, but should be safe on modern drives.

See also

* hard disk drive partitioning

 

<< PreviousWord BrowserNext >>
hierarchical file system
elevator music
ram disk
jeet kune do
asian
dragon (magazine)
simd
altivec
78 bc
79 bc
mmx
streaming simd extensions
port arthur
hercules emulator
corine
eldis
logical formatting
partition (computing)
supernatural
hard disk platter
ashkelon
gaza
master boot record
history of operating systems
hadean
descriptive linguistics
banded iron formation
ipotane
sector
douglas fairbanks, sr.
schenectady, new york
schenectady county, new york
list of linguists
history of linguistics
theoretical linguistics
drive letter assignment
kantogun
cluster
jean franois champollion
wuthering heights
jane eyre
mona
star wars episode iii: revenge of the sith
partition (ibm pc)
Copyright 2005-2009 OnPedia.com. All Rights Reserved