formatting means "to virgin the disk" through the interaction between the read/write head and the disk itself, which creates a series of grooves (tracks, sectors, and clusters); thus preparing the disk for its future activity of storing files and data.
prepare a storage device (hard disk, ssd, usb flash drive, sd card) for use by creating the file system that will allow organizing and managing data.
make a hard drive non-virgin.
the sorting and transferring of files
make files readable and saveable to a storage device by engraving tracks on the disk through the read/write head.
it means to delete the data.
clean up all existing files
delete the data
prepare a storage unit to accommodate files by creating grooves in the disk