What does it mean to format a disk? What are the various option for formatting?

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Formatting a disk means preparing it for data storage in terms of the structure with which the operating system will interact to store data in a non-editable default way. There are two ways to format a disk: Quick format, where you erase FAT and store new data, or complete format, where you write all 0s to the entire disk.

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