What is a low-level format

What is a low-level format?

Low-level format is to divide the blank disk into the cylinder and track, and then divide the track into several sectors, each sector is divided into the identification part ID, gap gaps and data areas, and so on. As you can see, low-level formatting is a work before advanced formatting, not only in a DOS environment, but also in XP and even Vista.

Low-level format is a lossy operation, will have a certain negative impact on the hard disk. In general, the small series does not recommend the user to the hard disk to do low-level format processing. Hard disk by the external strong magnet, strong magnetic field influence, or because of long-term use, the hard disk disc from the low-level format of the division of the magnetic record part of the loss, resulting in a large number of "bad sector", can be a low-level format to the division of "sector." But the premise is that the hard disk is not physically scratched the disc.

The difference between low-level formatting and advanced formatting is that low-level formatting is the most thorough initialization of the hard drive, removing all the data from the hard drive. And there is damage to the hard disk. The advanced format then satisfies the user's needs and does not damage the hard drive.

General hard drive in the factory and hard drive bad way to format the hard drive with low-level format. So how to lower the format of it.

1, the first can be used directly in DOS to use DOS commands to the disk for low-level format. As shown in the figure:

2, can also be in the CD-ROM or u disk PE system using the disc tool, the hard disk for low-level format operation. Can even be directly in the Windows XP or Windows7 system to adapt to the hard disk tools for low-level format operation, we suggest that the use of CD-ROM or USB disk tools to complete the inside of the PE interface to do

3, or with some tool software for low-level format, such as Lformat, DM and hard disk manufacturers to launch a variety of hard disk tools.

Note: In general, try not to lower your disk to low-level format, or more or less to the disk has some impact, if the disk is often low-level format can easily cause disk damage to the track, so generally still try to use advanced format.