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
create tracks by dividing them into sectors, with contiguous sectors forming clusters. the cluster is the minimum unit for file storage