Disk Formatting
November 10th, 2009
All magnetic hard drives are formatted in the same way, or divided into different parts known as tracks, sectors and cylinders.
The formatting method sets up a method of allocating addresses with the different fields. Formatting also make up a region for maintaining the list of addresses. The only way to know what happened with the data inside the hard disk is thru formatting. Take it for example a library. Imagine a library where your pages were tearing off from the books and scattered everywhere in the room. Getting the together the pages back to the book is almost impossible thing. The concept of formatting is to allow you to use the space while still being able to find things.