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An intern in an IT company was asked to format a flash disk in windows XP. The trainee formatted the hard disk by a mistake.
Explain the term formatting a disk.

Answer Text:
-Formatting is the process through which the operating system (OS) creates sectors and tracks on the disk and deletes any data on the disk
so as to prepare a disk for use and enable the OS to recognize and access the disk.