How to Reformat an Internal or External Hard Drive on Windows 10?
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Summary
Hard disk has been playing an important role in data storage since computer was invented. The data stored in the hard disk obviously overvalues the disk itself. Meanwhile, the performance of the hard disk greatly affects the computer operation and the user’s experience. If you are a Windows 10 user, do you know how to reformat an internal or external hard drive?
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Supported storage devices Recover data from recycle bin, SD card, external disk, etc.
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Building file system is commonly known as formatting, or high-level formatting. Formatting is a way to initialize the partitions. That will delete all files stored in partitions.
If low-level formatting is completed in the internal or external drive, the control chip will be refreshed, including the capacity information, the manufacturer, the inner storage algorithm, the storage block and the numbers of the sectors.
2. Low-level formatting is to initialize the whole drive while high-level formatting can target at single partition.
3. After low-level formatting, data will be irrecoverable. Yet, high-level formatting is a recoverable process. If the data erased in the quick or whole format cannot be recovered, the data will be recovered after high-level formatting.
For example, if error always generate from your hard drive, even unable to connect with the operating system, you need to perform low-level formatting. Besides, if some parameters (i.e. hard drive interval coefficient) are attacked by virus, you also need to perform low-level formatting to reset the values.
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