Disc formatting preparing a blank magnetic disc so that data can be stored on it,Data are recorded on a disc's surfae on circular tracks each of which is devided in to a number of sectors .In formatting a disc the computer operating system adds control information such as track and sector numbers which enables the data stored to be access correctly by the disk drive unit.
Some word processing systems are Hard-sectored
Floppy discs In which the formatting was determined by whole punched in the disks .Today however all micro process are soft sectored discs,which are either sold perfaormatter or formaatted using the utility program provided with every micro computer operating system.
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