low-level formatting

1. 1.

   (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

   Synonymsinitializationinitialisation

   Broaderformat

   computer science

Questions about low-level formatting

What does low-level formatting mean?

low-level formatting means "(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 another word for low-level formatting?

Close synonyms include initialization, initialisation. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.