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Formatting a hard disk drive usingMS-DOS

Disk formatting is the process of preparing adata storage devicesuch as ahard disk drive,

solid-state drive,floppy diskorUSB flash drivefor initial use. In some cases, the formattingoperation may also create one or more newfile systems. The first part of the formatting

process that performs basic medium preparation is often referred to as "low-levelformatting".[1]Partitioning is the common term for the second part of the process, making thedata storage device visible to anoperating system.[1]The third part of the process, usuallytermed "high-level formatting" most often refers to the process of generating a new filesystem.[1]In some operating systems all or parts of these the three processes can be combinedand the term "format" is understood to mean an operation in which a new disk medium isfully prepared to store files. Illustrated to the right are the prompts and diagnostics printed byMS-DOS's FORMAT.COM utility as a hard drive is being formatted.

As a general rule, formatting a disk leaves most if not all existing data on the disk medium;some or most of which might be recoverable with special tools.[2]Special tools can removeuser data by a single overwrite of all files and free space.[3]

Contents

1 History 2 Disk formatting process

o 2.1 Low-level formatting of floppy diskso 2.2 Low-level formatting (LLF) of hard disks

2.2.1 Transition away from LLF 2.2.2 Disk reinitialization

o 2.3 Partitioningo 2.4 High-level formatting

3 Host protected area 4 Reformatting 5 Formatting

o 5.1 DOS, OS/2 and Windowso 5.2 Unix-like operating systems

6 Recovery of data from a formatted disk 7 See also 8 Notes 9 References
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A "block", a contiguous number of bytes, is the minimum unit of memory that is read fromand written to a disk by a disk driver. The earliest disk drives had fixed block sizes (e.g. theIBM 350disk storage unit (of the late 1950s) block size was 100 6 bit characters) but startingwith the1301[4]IBM marketed subsystems that featured variable block sizes: a particulartrack could have blocks of different sizes. Thedisk subsystemson theIBM System/360expanded this concept in the form ofCount Key Data(CKD) and laterExtended Count KeyData(ECKD); however the use of variable block size in HDDs fell out of use in the 1990s;one of the last HDDs to support variable block size was the IBM 3390 Model 9, announcedMay 1993[5]

Modern hard disk drives such asSerial attached SCSI(SAS)[6]andSerial ATA(SATA)[7]drives, appear at theirinterfacesas a contiguous set of fixed-size blocks; for many years 512

bytes long but beginning in 2009 and accelerating through 2011, all major hard disk drivemanufacturers began releasing hard disk drive platforms using theAdvanced Formatof 4096

byte logical blocks.[8][9]

Floppy disksgenerally only used fixed block sizes but these sizes were a function of thehost'sOSand its interaction with itscontrollerso that a particular type of media (e.g., 5-inch DSDD) would have different block sizes depending upon the host OS and controller.

Optical disksgenerally only use fixed block sizes.

Disk formatting process

Formatting a disk for use by an operating system and its applications typically involves threedifferent processes.[NB 1]

1. Low-level formatting (i.e., closest to the hardware) marks the surfaces of the diskswith markers indicating the start of a recording block (typically today called sectormarkers) and other information like blockCRCto be used later, in normal operations,

by thedisk controllerto read or write data. This is intended to be the permanent

foundation of the disk, and is often completed at the factory.2. Partitioningdivides a disk into one or more regions, writing data structures to the disk

to indicate the beginning and end of the regions. This level of formatting oftenincludes checking for defective tracks or defective sectors.

3. High-level formatting creates thefile systemformat within a disk partition or alogicalvolume. This formatting includes the data structures used by the OS to identify thelogical drive or partition's contents). This may occur during operating systeminstallation, or when adding a new disk.Disk and distributed file systemmay specifyan optional boot block, and/or various volume and directory information for theoperating system.

Low-level formatting of floppy disks
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The low-level format of floppy disks (and early hard disks) is performed by the disk drive'scontroller.

Consider a standard1.44 MB floppy disk. Low-level formatting of the floppy disk, normallywrites 18sectorsof 512bytesto each of 160 tracks (80 on each side) of the floppy disk,

providing 1,474,560 bytes of storage on the disk.

Physical sectors are actually larger than 512 bytes, as in addition to the 512 byte data fieldthey include a sector identifier field,CRCbytes (in some caseserror correction bytes) andgaps between the fields. These additional bytes are not normally included in the quoted figurefor overall storage capacity of the disk.

Different low-level formats can be used on the samemedia; for example, large records can beused to cut down on inter-record gap size.

Severalfreeware,sharewareandfree softwareprograms (e.g.GParted,FDFORMAT,

NFORMAT and2M) allowed considerably more control over formatting, allowing theformatting of high-density 3.5" disks with a capacity up to 2 MB.

Techniques used include:

head/track sector skew (moving the sector numbering forward at side change andtrack stepping to reduce mechanical delay),

interleavingsectors (to boost throughput by organizing the sectors on the track), increasing the number of sectors per track (while a normal 1.44 MB format uses 18

sectors per track, it is possible to increase this to a maximum of 21), and increasing the number of tracks (most drives could tolerate extension to 82 tracks:

though some could handle more, others could jam).

Linuxsupports a variety of sector sizes, andDOSandWindowssupport a large-record-sizeDMF-formatted floppy format.[citation needed]

Low-level formatting (LLF) of hard disks

Low-level format of a 10-megabyteIBM PC XThard drive

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procured from separate vendors, low level formatting was a potential user activity. Separateprocurement also had the potential of incompatibility between the separate components suchthat the subsystem would not reliably store data.[10]

User instigated low-level formatting (LLF) ofhard disk driveswas common for

minicomputerandpersonal computersystems until the 1990s. IBM and other mainframesystem vendors typically supplied their hard disk drives (or media in the case of removablemedia HDDs) with a low-level format. Typically this involved subdividing each track on thedisk into one or more blocks which would contain the user data and associated controlinformation. Different computers used different block sizes and IBM notably usedvariable

block sizesbut the popularity of the IBM PC caused the industry to adopt a standard of 512user data bytes per block by the middle 1980s.

Depending upon the system, low-level formatting was generally done by an operating systemsystem utility. IBM compatible PCs used the BIOS, which is invoked using the MS-DOSdebugprogram, to transfer control to a routine hidden at different addresses in different

BIOSes.[11]

Transition away from LLF

Starting in the late 1980s, driven by the volume of IBM compatible PCs, HDDs becameroutinely available pre-formatted with a compatible low-level format. At the same time, theindustry moved fromhistorical (dumb) bit serial interfacestomodern (intelligent) bit serialinterfaces and Word serial interfaceswherein the low level format was performed at thefactory.

Today, anend-user, in most cases, should never perform a low-level formatting of an IDE orATA hard drive, and in fact it is often not possible to do so on modern hard drives becausethe formatting is done on aservowriterbefore the disk is assembled into a drive in thefactory.[12][13]

Disk reinitialization

This section needs additional citations for verification. Please helpimprove thisarticlebyadding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may bechallengedandremoved.(July 2009)

While it is generally impossible to perform a complete LLF on most modern hard drives(since the mid-1990s) outside the factory,[14]the term "low-level format" is still used for whatcould be called the reinitialization of a hard drive to itsfactory configuration (and even theseterms may be misunderstood).

The present ambiguity in the term low-level formatseems to be due to both inconsistentdocumentation on web sites and the belief by many users that any process below a high-level(file system) format must be called a low-levelformat. Since much of the low levelformatting process can today only be performed at the factory, various drive manufacturersdescribe reinitialization software as LLF utilities on their web sites. Since users generallyhave no way to determine the difference between a complete LLF and reinitialization (they

simply observe running the software results in a hard disk that must be high-level formatted),both the misinformed user and mixed signals from various drive manufacturers have
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perpetuated this error. Note: Whatever possible misuse of such terms may exist (search harddrive manufacturers' web sites for all these terms), many sites do make such reinitializationutilities available (possibly as bootable floppy diskette or CD image files), to both overwriteevery byte andcheck for damaged sectors on the hard disk.

Reinitialization should include identifying (and sparing out if possible) any sectors whichcannot be written to and read back from the drive, correctly. The term has, however, beenused by some to refer to only a portion of that process, in which every sector of the drive iswritten to; usually by writing a specific value to every addressable location on the disk.

Traditionally, the physical sectors were initialized with a filler value of0xF6 as per theINT 1Eh'sDisk Parameter Table(DPT) during format on IBM compatible machines. Thisvalue is also used on theAtari Portfolio. 8-inchCP/Mfloppies typically came pre-formatted

with a value of0xE5,[15]and by way ofDigital Researchthis value was also used onAtari ST

and someAmstradformatted floppies.[NB 2]Amstrad otherwise used 0xF4 as a format filler

value. Some modern formatters wipe hard disks with a value of0x00 instead, sometimes also

calledzero-filling, whereas a value of0xFF is used on flash disks to reducewear. The lattervalue is typically also the default value used on ROM disks (which cannot be reformatted).(Some advanced formatting tools allow to configure the format filler byte.[NB 3])

One popular method for performing only the zero-fill operation on a hard disk is by writingzero-value bytes to the drive using the Unixddutility with the/dev/zerostream as the inputfile and the drive itself or a specific partition as the output file.[16]This command may takemany hours to complete, and can erase all files and file systems.

Another method forSCSIdisks may use the sg_format[17]command to issue a low levelSCSI

Format Unit Command.

Overwriting the drive with a zero-fill-command is not necessarily a secure method of erasingsensitive data, or of preparing a drive for use with an encrypted filesystem.[18]

Partitioning

Main article:Disk partitioning

Partitioning is the process of writing information into blocks of a storage device or mediumthat allows access by an operating system. Some operating systems allow the device (or its

medium) to appear as multiple devices; i.e. partitioned into multiple devices.

OnMS-DOS,Microsoft Windows, and UNIX-based operating systems (such asBSD,LinuxandMac OS X) this is normally done with apartition editor, such asfdisk,GNU Parted, andDisk Utility. These operating systems support multiple partitions.

In current IBM mainframe OSs derived fromOS/360andDOS/360, such asz/OSandz/VSE,this is done by the INIT command of the ICKDSF utility.[19]These OSs support only a single

partition per device, called a volume. The ICKDSF functions include creating a volume labeland writing a Record 0 on every track.

Floppy disks are not partitioned; however depending upon the OS they may require volumeinformation in order to be accessed by the OS.
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Partition editorsand ICKDSF today do not handle low level functions for HDDs and opticaldisk drives such as writing timing marks, and they cannot reinitialize a modern disk that has

been degaussed or otherwise lost the factory formatting.

High-level formatting

High-level formatting is the process of setting up an empty file system on a disk partition orlogical volumeand, for PCs, installing aboot sector. This is a fast operation, and issometimes referred to as quick formatting.

The entire logical drive or partition may optionally be scanned for defects, which may takeconsiderable time.

In the case of floppy disks, both high- and low-level formatting are customarily performed inone pass by the disk formatting software. 8-inch floppies typically came low-level formatted

and were filled with a format filler value of0xE5.[15][NB 2]Since the 1990s, most 5.25-inch and3.5-inch floppies have been shipped pre-formatted from the factory as DOSFAT12floppies.

In current IBM mainframe operating systems derived fromOS/360orDOS/360, this may bedone as part of allocating a file, by a utility specific to the file system or, in some older accessmethods, on the fly as new data are written.

Host protected area

Main article:Host protected area

The host protected area, sometimes referred to as hidden protected area, is an area of aharddrivethat is high level formatted so that the area is not normally visible to itsoperatingsystem(OS).

Reformatting

Reformatting is ahigh-level formattingperformed on a functioning disk drive to free thecontents of its medium. Reformatting is unique to each operating system because whatactually is done to existing data varies by OS. The most important aspect of the process isthat it frees disk space for use by other data. To actually "erase" everything requires

overwriting each block of data on the medium; something that is not done by many PC high-level formatting utilities.

Reformatting often carries the implication that the operating system and all other softwarewill be reinstalled after the format is complete. Rather than fixing an installation sufferingfrom malfunction or security compromise, it is sometimes judged easier to simply reformateverything and start from scratch. Various colloquialism exist for this process, such as "wipeand reload", "nuke and pave", "reimage", etc.

Formatting

DOS, OS/2 and Windows
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MS-DOS 6.22a FORMAT /U switch failing to overwrite content of partition

format command: UnderMS-DOS,PC-DOS,OS/2andMicrosoft Windows, disk formatting

can be performed by theformatcommand. The format program usually asks forconfirmation beforehand to prevent accidental removal of data, but some versions of DOS

have an undocumented /AUTOTEST option; if used, the usual confirmation is skipped and theformat begins right away. The WM/FormatCmacro virususes this command to format driveC: as soon as a document is opened.

Unconditional format: There is also the undocumented /U parameter that performs anunconditionalformat which under most circumstances overwrites the entire partition,[20]

preventing the recovery of data through software. Note however that the /U switch only

works reliably with floppy diskettes (see image to the right). Technically because unless /Q isused, floppies are always low level formatted in addition to high-level formatted. Under

certain circumstances with hard drive partitions, however, the /U switch merely prevents the

creation ofunformat

information in the partition to be formatted while otherwise leaving thepartition's contents entirely intact (still on disk but marked deleted). In such cases, the user'sdata remain ripe for recovery with specialist tools such asEnCaseordisk editors. Reliance

upon /U for secure overwriting of hard drive partitions is therefore inadvisable, and purpose-built tools such asDBANshould be considered instead.

Overwriting: In Windows Vista and upwards the non-quick format will overwrite as it goes.Not the case in Windows XP and below.[21]

OS/2: Under OS/2, if you use the /L parameter, which specifies a longformat, then formatwill overwrite the entire partition or logical drive. Doing so enhances the ability ofCHKDSK

to recover files.
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Unix-like operating systems

High-level formatting of disks on these systems is traditionally done using themkfs

command. On Linux (and potentially other systems as well) mkfs is typically a wrapper

around filesystem-specific commands which have the name mkfs.fsname, wherefsname is

the name of the filesystem with which to format the disk.[22]Some filesystems which are notsupported by certain implementations ofmkfs have their own manipulation tools; forexampleNtfsprogsprovides a format utility for theNTFSfilesystem.

Some Unix and Unix-like operating systems have higher-level formatting tools, usually forthe purpose of making disk formatting easier and/or allowing the user to partition the diskwith the same tool. Examples includeGNU Parted(and its various GUI frontends such asGPartedand theKDE Partition Manager) and theDisk Utilityapplication onMac OS X.

Recovery of data from a formatted disk

This section may containoriginal research. Pleaseimprove itbyverifyingtheclaims made and addinginline citations. Statements consisting only of originalresearch may be removed. (March 2011)

As in file deletion by the operating system, data on a disk are not fully erased during every[23]high-level format. Instead, the area on the disk containing the data is merely marked asavailable, and retains the old data until it is overwritten. If the disk is formatted with adifferent file system than the one which previously existed on the partition, some data may beoverwritten that wouldn't be if the same file system had been used. However, under some file

systems (e.g., NTFS, but not FAT), the file indexes (such as $MFTs under NTFS, inodesunder ext2/3, etc.) may not be written to the same exact locations. And if the partition size isincreased, even FAT file systems will overwrite more data at the beginning of that new

partition.

From the perspective of preventing the recovery of sensitive data through recovery tools, thedata must either be completely overwritten (every sector) with random data before the format,

or the format program itself must perform this overwriting, as theDOSFORMAT command didwith floppy diskettes, filling every data sector with the format filler byte value (typically

0xF6).

However there are applications and tools, especially used in forensic information technology,that can recover data that has been conventionally erased. In order to avoid the recovery ofsensitive data, governmental organization or big companies use information destructionmethods like theGutmann method.[24]For average users there are also special applicationsthat can perform complete data destruction by overwriting previous information. Althoughthere are applications that perform multiple writes asingle writeis generally all that is neededon modern hard disk drives.

See also

Data erasure

Data recovery
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Data remanence Drive mapping List of default file systems

Notes

1. Êach process may involve multiple steps, and steps of different processes may beinterleaved.

2. âbThe fact, that 8-inch CP/M floppies came pre-formatted with a filler value of0xE5 is the reason, why the value of0xE5 has a special meaning in directory entries inFAT12,FAT16andFAT32file systems. This byte configuration allowed86-DOStouse 8-inch floppies out of the box or with only the FAT initialized.

3. Ône utility providing an option to specify the desired format filler value for harddisks is DR-DOS' FDISK R2.31 with its optional wipe parameter/W:246 (for a

format filler byte of0xF6). In contrast to otherFDISKutilities, DR-DOS FDISK is

not only a partitioning tool, but can also format freshly created partitions asFAT12,FAT16orFAT32. This reduces the risk to accidentally format wrong volumes.

References

1. âbcTanenbaum, Andrew(2001).Modern Operating Systems, 2nd Edition. section3.4.2, Disk Formatting.ISBN0130313580.

2. ^Hermans, Sherman (28 August 2006)."How to recover lost files after youaccidentally wipe your hard drive". Linux.com. Retrieved 22 November 2012.

3. ^Smithson, Brian (29 August 2011)."The Urban Legend of Multipass Hard DiskOverwrite and DoD 5220-22-M". Infosec Island. Retrieved 22 November 2012.4. ^"IBM 1301 disk storage unit".IBM. Retrieved 2010-06-24.

5. ÎBM 3390 direct access storage device6. ^"The LBAs on a logical unit shall begin with zero and shall be contiguous up to the

last logical block on the logical unit"., Information technologySerial AttachedSCSI - 2 (SAS-2), INCITS 457 Draft 2, May 8, 2009, chapter 4.1 Direct-access blockdevice type model overview.

7. ÎSO/IEC 791D:1994, AT Attachment Interface for Disk Drives (ATA-1), section7.1.2

8. ^Western Digital's Advanced Format: The 4K Sector Transition Begins9. Âdvanced FormatThe Migration to 4K Sectors, Seagate Corp.10.^This problem became common in PCs where users used RLL controllers with MFMdrives;"MFM drives should not be used on RLL controllers. ..". 11.Ûsing DEBUG to Start a Low-Level Format, Microsoft12.^The NOSPIN Group, Inc. (n.d.).Low level formatting an IDE hard drive. Retrieved

December 24, 2003.13.^The PC Guide. Site Version: 2.2.0 - Version Date: April 17, 2001Low-Level

Format, Zero-Fill and Diagnostic Utilities. Retrieved May 24, 2007.14.^Many enterprise class HDDs can be low-level formatted to block sizes other than

512 bytes, e.g.Seagate SAS drivessupport sector sizes of 512, 520, 524 or 528 bytesand can reformatted from one size to another

15.âbAndrew Schulman, Ralf Brown, David Maxey, Raymond J. Michels, Jim Kyle(1994). Undocumented DOS. Addison Wesley, second edition.ISBN 0-201-63287-X,ISBN 978-0-201-63287-3.
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06-07.21.^"MSKB941961: Change in the behavior of the format command in Windows

Vista".Microsoft Corporation. 2009-02-23. Retrieved 2012-10-24. "The formatcommand behavior has changed in Windows Vista. By default in Windows Vista, theformat command writes zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed. InWindows XP and in earlier versions of the Windows operating system, the formatcommand does not write zeros to the whole disk when a full format is performed."

22.^"mkfs(8) - Linux man page". Retrieved 2010-04-25.23.^Data are destroyed in PC operating systems when the /L (long) option is used on

format, for aPartitioned Data Set (PDS)inMVSand for newer file systems on IBMmainframes.

24.^Deleting files permanentlyExternal links

Windows NT Workstation Resource Kit, Chapter 17 - Disk and File System Basics ,section "Formatting Hard Disks and Floppy Disks"

Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memoryby Peter Gutmann Differences between a Quick format and a regular format during a "clean"

installation of Windows XPfrom Microsoft Help and Support. Useful for anyonesetting up their own computer and needing advice on the subject!

support.microsoft.comHow to Use the Fdisk Tool and the Format Tool to Partitionor Repartition a Hard Disk

Help: I Got Hacked. Now What Do I Do?Microsoft Tech Net: Why you shouldwipe a compromised drive to the bare metal. Article by Jesper M. Johansson, Ph.D.,CISSP, MCSE, MCP+I

Ultimate Boot CD- Free utility including many useful dos/linux based tools forsystem maintenance. It's bootable from a CD or USB and has its own operatingsystems so it's completely independent from external software.

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