Formatting A Drive

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