Software Utilities
Storage media has to be initialised or ‘formatted’ so the storage media can be recognised by your computer and be used to store data files. Physical (low-level) formatting tests the surface, scanning for imperfections and setting aside those sectors that cannot be used. Whereas Logical (high-level) formatting prepares the disk by setting up a file system which then defines how files and folders will be stored and accessed. The high-level formatting process writes material to allow the operating system to interact with the disk. This includes the boot sector which holds data about how data is organised on the disk, such as the number of sectors, the number of sectors per track and the number of bytes per sector.
Also the root directory table which has an entry for each file on the disk: the name of the file and the file extension, the file like the date and time that the file was created or last updated and the length of the file.
Also the root directory table which has an entry for each file on the disk: the name of the file and the file extension, the file like the date and time that the file was created or last updated and the length of the file.