Format
- The overall layout of a document. For example, the formatting of text on many English documents is aligned to the left of a page. When formatting text a user could change the format of text to bold text.
- Format is also a MS-DOS command that prepares a blank diskette or hard drives to hold data. For example, if you wanted to to erase a floppy diskette you could type format a: to format all information on that diskette. Another example, is format c: which would format all information on your hard drive, effectively erasing everything on your computer.
- How to erase my hard drive and start over.
- See the format command page for further information on this command.
Also see: Floppy definitions, Hard drive definitions, High-level format, Low-level format, Preformatted, Reformat