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2. Disk formatting - Wikipedia

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   Low-level format of a 10-megabyte IBM PC XT hard drive. Hard disk drives prior to the 1990s typically had a separate disk controller that defined how data was encoded on the media. With the media, the drive and/or the controller possibly procured from separate vendors, users were often able to perform low-level formatting.

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. format (command) - Wikipedia

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   Microsoft Windows XP Professional Product Documentation: "format" Open source FORMAT implementation that comes with MS-DOS v2.0; MSKB255867: How to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partition or Repartition a Hard Disk; Microsoft DOS format command; Recovery Console format command Archived 2011-07-07 at the Wayback Machine

5. Advanced Format - Wikipedia

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   [11] Hard disk drive format efficiency with Advanced Format 4K technology and distributed ECC. Having a huge number of legacy 512-byte-sector–based hard disk drives shipped up to the middle of 2010, many systems, programs and applications accessing the hard disk drive are designed around the 512-byte-per-sector convention.

6. Disk partitioning - Wikipedia

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   (Windows drive letters do not correspond to partitions in a one-to-one fashion, so there may be more or fewer drive letters than partitions.) Microsoft Windows 2000 , XP , Vista , and Windows 7 include a ' Disk Management ' program which allows for the creation, deletion and resizing of FAT and NTFS partitions.

7. Microsoft Reserved Partition - Wikipedia

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   Formerly, on disks formatted using the master boot record (MBR) partition layout, certain software components used hidden sectors of the disk for data storage purposes. For example, the Logical Disk Manager (LDM), on dynamic disks, stores metadata in a 1 MB area at the end of the disk which is not allocated to any partition.

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9. VHD (file format) - Wikipedia

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   They are typically used as the hard disk of a virtual machine, are built into modern versions of Windows, and are the native file format for Microsoft's hypervisor (virtual machine system), Hyper-V. The format was created by Connectix for their Virtual PC product, known as Microsoft Virtual PC since Microsoft acquired Connectix in 2003. VHDX ...