

Therefore, users don't need to carry out low-level format.Īfter reading this post – Check Out This Way To Recover Files From Formatted Hard Drive, you’ll know what low-level format & high-level format are respectively and the way to recover files from a formatted hard drive. When each disk leaves the factory, hard disk manufacturers have performed low-level format on it. Low-level format only support one hard disk rather than a separate partition.

It can not only be achieved in DOS environment, but also in Windows NT systems. We can see that low-level format is carried out before high-level format.

Next, each sector is divided into ID, GAP, DATA and so on. Then, cylinders are divided into several sectors. Low-level format refers to dividing cylinders and tracks in blank disk.
