What does "low-level formatting" mean?

(computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position

What is a synonym for "low-level formatting"?

Common synonyms include: initialisation, initialization.

Low-level formatting

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(computer science) the format of sectors on the surface of a hard disk drive so that the operating system can access them and setting a starting position wordnet

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initialisation initialization

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