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The activity of creating sectors and tracks on a hard disk is called

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Answered by knoxartiste
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The activity of creating sectors and tracks on a hard disk is called Formatting

Answered by letmeanswer12
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"Formatting ".    

Explanation :

The method of dividing the disk into tracks and sectors is called formatting.

Each platter of a hard disk is divided into several concentric tracks. Each track is divided into many sectors, each of which can store the same amount of data.

A sector is the shortest physical storage unit on the disk, and on most of the file systems, it is fixed size is at 512 bytes.

A disk drive track is a circular track on the surface of a disk on which data is magnetically recorded and from which recorded information is read.

A track is a physical section of data in a disk drive, as used in the Cylinder-Head-Record addressing mode of a CKD disk.

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