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2. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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   High-level formatting creates the file system format within a disk partition or a logical volume. [1] This formatting includes the data structures used by the OS to identify the logical drive or partition's contents. This may occur during operating system installation, or when adding a new disk.

3. GUID Partition Table - Wikipedia

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   In 2010, hard-disk manufacturers introduced drives with 4,096‑byte sectors (Advanced Format). [3] For compatibility with legacy hardware and software, those drives include an emulation technology ( 512e ) that presents 512‑byte sectors to the entity accessing the hard drive, despite their underlying 4,096‑byte physical sectors. [ 4 ]

4. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   IBM in its 1983 release of PC DOS version 2.0 was an early if not first use of the term partition to describe dividing a block storage device such as an HDD into physical segments. The term's usage is now ubiquitous. [citation needed] Other terms used include logical disk, [4] minidisk, [5] portions, [6] pseudo-disk, [6] section, [6] slice [7 ...

5. format (command) - Wikipedia

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   With this option, Format writes bootstrap code to the first sector of the volume (and possibly elsewhere as well). Format always writes a BIOS Parameter Block to the first sector, with or without the /S option. Another option (/Q) allows for what Microsoft calls "Quick Format". With this option the command will not perform steps 2 and 3 above.

6. label (command) - Wikipedia

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   LABEL [drive:][label] LABEL [/MP] [volume] [label] Arguments: drive: This command-line argument specifies the drive letter of a drive. label Specifies the label of the volume. volume Specifies the drive letter (followed by a colon), mount point, or volume name. Flags: /MP Specifies that the volume should be treated as a mount point or volume name.

7. Advanced Format - Wikipedia

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   When using Advanced Format drives with legacy operating systems, it is important to realign the disk drive using software provided by the hard disk manufacturer. Disk realignment is necessary to avoid a performance degrading condition known as cluster straddling where a shifted partition causes filesystem clusters to span partial physical disk ...

8. DriveSpace - Wikipedia

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   In the most common usage scenario, the user would have one hard drive in the computer, with all the space allocated to one partition (usually as drive C:). The software would compress the entire partition contents into one large file in the root directory. On booting the system, the driver would allocate this large file as drive C:, enabling ...

9. vol (command) - Wikipedia

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   vol [Drive:] Arguments: Drive: This command-line argument specifies the drive letter of the disk for which to display the volume label and serial number. Note: On Windows, the volume serial number is displayed only for disks formatted with MS-DOS version 4.0 or later. OS/2 allows the user to specify more than one drive.