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2. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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   Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves three different processes. [e]Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the disks with markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sector markers) and other information like block CRC to be used later, in normal operations, by the disk ...

3. Darik's Boot and Nuke - Wikipedia

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   Darik's Boot and Nuke, also known as DBAN / ˈ d iː b æ n /, is a free and open-source project hosted on SourceForge. [2] The program is designed to securely erase a hard disk until its data is permanently removed and no longer recoverable, which is achieved by overwriting the data with pseudorandom numbers generated by Mersenne Twister or ISAAC.

4. format (command) - Wikipedia

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   In computing, format is a command-line utility that carries out disk formatting. It is a component of various operating systems , including 86-DOS , MS-DOS , IBM PC DOS and OS/2 , Microsoft Windows and ReactOS .

5. VHD (file format) - Wikipedia

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   VHDX (Virtual Hard Disk v2) is the successor format to VHD. Where VHD has a capacity limit of 2040 GB, VHDX has a capacity limit of 64 TB. For disk images with this newer format the filename extension vhdx is used instead of vhd. VHDX protects against power failures and is used by Hyper-V. [23] VHDX format is optimized for both HDD and SSD.

6. Comparison of disc image software - Wikipedia

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7. List of disk partitioning software - Wikipedia

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   Free software No MS-DOS: GNOME Disks: Red Hat: Free software Yes Linux: GNU Parted CLI-only (GUIs: Gparted, QtParted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux GParted (GUI for GNU Parted) The GParted Project Free software Yes Linux (Live CD is independent) March 28, 2022 gdisk (GPT fdisk) Roderick W. Smith Free software Yes Linux, macOS, Windows

8. diskpart - Wikipedia

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   The diskpart utility is used for partitioning internal hard drives but can also format removable media such as flash drives. [4] It has long been possible, theoretically, to partition removable drives – such as flash drives or memory cards – from within Windows NT 4.0 / 2000 / XP; e.g., during system installation.

9. VMDK - Wikipedia

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   VMDK (short for Virtual Machine Disk) is a file format that describes containers for virtual hard disk drives to be used in virtual machines like VMware Workstation or VirtualBox.