formatting occurs when the hard disk head first touches the disk and saves the first file.
delete information
write to a hard drive
the moment when the stylus hits the record leaving grooves
create the tracks, clusters, and sectors on the hard disk
operation through which the magnetic storage system (hard disk) is made operable. in simple terms, it is the set of information that must be used to locate the files that will be downloaded to that storage device.
clean
to write to a disk. formatting creates concentric circles on the disk, called tracks, which will allow files to be saved. a set of tracks forms a cluster. a set of clusters is called a sector.