Monday, 16 November 2009

Formatting a floppy disk

Formatting a floppy disk is done to completley empty the floppy of stored data. Data is stored on a magnetic medium in a floppy disk deleting these files do not fully remove them all as some backups may be stickied on the magnetic medium.

Formatting a floppy disk brings no benefits to the computers performance itself, it will only benefit the floppy with much more space.

When formatting a floppy disk this screen will show:


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