On Fri, 14 Sep 2007 15:52:51 -0400, krw wrote:

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I'm quite familiar with the concept. You, OTOH, haven't heard that
LLF went out with button hooks. It's been at least 20 years since
users were capable of doing a LLF. The hardware ain't there.


Low-level format is a necessity. If your drive wasn't low-level
formatted (which must be done at the factory), it would be unusable.

HIGH level formatting is what your computer does. That's writing the
OS to the sectors created by LLF.

To confuse matters, people are CALLING something they can do a LLF,
when it just writes 0 bytes to existing sectors. It's not a LLF at
all.

(which really is
irrelevant to the disk size issue, they simply use a different definition of
a megabyte, manufacturers define it at 1,000,000 bytes,

Which is what I said.

while the os works
only in numbers divisible by 8, starting at the kilobyte)

Divisible by 8? Not many PCs use octal.


None do. They use binary. Other bases (octal, decimal, hexadecimal,
etc...) do not exist within the computer, but are just ideas present
in the users' minds.

Maybe the number you're looking for is 1,048,576 which is 2^20.

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