To format a disk, launch Explorer. In the left windowpane, highlight the icon of the diskette or disk you want to format, and right click the mouse. Select Format and click Start. THIS DEFINITION ...

Software that initializes a disk. There are two formatting levels on a magnetic medium such as a hard disk or floppy disk. The low-level format initializes the disk surface by creating the ...

The next section explains how to troubleshoot the message: Disk Is Write Protected – assuming the problem lies with the device. You will not be able to format the device if you try to do it ...

We remember the floppy disk as the storage medium most of us used two decades or more ago, limited in capacity and susceptible to data loss. It found its way into a few unexpected uses such as ...