prashantsinharanchi

 Profile Answers by prashantsinharanchi 

• Apr 23rd, 2009

 

Low level formatting is a type of formatting where new track and sector are created after erasing old one. This type of formatting is very slow. Actually it is a outlining the track and sector of hard disk where actual data will be store and writing the control structures that define where the tracks and sectors are. After low level formatting data is permanently erased but from few software it is possible to recover data.

veda prakash

 Profile Answers by veda prakash 

• Jul 7th, 2011

 

creating new tracks and sectors on the hard disk

Hamid Ali

• Jul 20th, 2011

 

Low-level formatting is the process of outlining the positions of the tracks and sectors on the hard disk, and writing the control structures that define where the tracks and sectors are. This is often called a "true" formatting operation, because it really creates the physical format that defines where the data is stored on the disk. The first time that a low-level format ("LLF") is performed on a hard disk, the disk's platters start out empty.

That's the last time the platters will be empty for the life of the drive. If an LLF is done on a disk with data on it already, the data is permanently erased (save heroic data recovery measures which are sometimes possible).


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