| An initial formatting of a hard drive that initializes the physical tracks
on the surface
or the internal disks. The drive manufacturer usually performs a low-level
format on the hard disk drive before it is released
and is not something a user needs to do once they've purchased the
drive. If a high-level format (e.g. running
the MS-DOS format command) is unable to be completed on
a hard disk drive and/or you're looking for information about how
to do a low-level format because of a MBR virus or being unable to
delete partitions, a debug routine can be performed on the computer
that is often referred to as a low-level format. This debug routine can be found on our debug
routine page.
Also see: Format, Hard disk drive
definitions, High-level format,
MFM
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