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The third part of the process, usually termed "high-level formatting" most often refers to the process of generating a new file system. Partitioning is the common term for the second part of the process, dividing the device into several sub-devices and, in some cases, writing information to the device allowing an operating system to be booted from it. The first part of the formatting process that performs basic medium preparation is often referred to as "low-level formatting". In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems. The only problem comes in if you are using a non-IBM PC hardware compatible that uses a floppy disk format that is not a standard 160k, 180k, 320k, 360k, 720k, 1.2mb, or 1.44mb format.Process of preparing a data storage device for initial useĭisk formatting is the process of preparing a data storage device such as a hard disk drive, solid-state drive, floppy disk, memory card or USB flash drive for initial use. If we are dealing with a normal-ish floppy or hard drive media, there is a tool called READBOOT with the shareware FDFORMAT floppy formatter that can read or write boot sectors to and from arbitrary disks without clobbering the Bios Parameter Block data that resides in the boot sector, regardless of the OS that is currently running. BTW, WinImage can resize boot disks between different sized formats. If downloadable DOS images are available for this system, then you would need to write the image with ImageDisk, WinImage, or similar.
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Normally one would boot from a vendor provided boot floppy or the internal hard drive and then SYS or FORMAT /S another disk or hard drive. This code is usually specific to the version of DOS.
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The issue is you also need a piece of code that resides in the boot sector.
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Click to expand.Exactly what computer is this that requires a special version of DOS?
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