How to format a floppy disk.
2006-11-15 07:09:08 · 4 answers · asked by rozee 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Other - Computers
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2006-11-15 07:09:44 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you format a disk, it creates sectors on the disk for holding information. As those sectors are filled, a directory is written at the beginning of the disk so that Windows knows how to find the files. A Full Format goes through and clears all the sector heading and the directory, so that the disk is ready for new information. A Quick format does not clear all the old sector headings. It merely erases the directory so that Windows thinks all the sectors are empty, and it will refill them with new files. Because it does not format eveything, just the directory, it is "quick".
You can not perform a "quick" format on a new disk. It has to have a full format first to create the sectors. After that, a quick format can be used just to clear out the directory and get the disk ready for reuse.
After a time of usage, it is recommended that you do a "full format", as it will check the entire disk for errors. If something is wearing out or going bad on the disk, better to find out in a format, then to have it fail in use and all the data on it be lost. A quick format does not check the disk for errors, it only clears the directory.
2006-11-15 15:16:28 · answer #2 · answered by dewcoons 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Quick just overwrites the FAT, full also checks for bad sectors.
2006-11-15 15:21:04 · answer #3 · answered by ? 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
quick is just as good, buta lot faster
2006-11-15 15:10:26 · answer #4 · answered by Tucker 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋