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What (who) is disk formatter - definition

PGPdisk; Pgpdisk; PgpDisk; PGP Disk; PGP disk; Pgp disk; PGP Virtual Disk; PGP Whole Disk Encryption

Disk formatting         
  • IBM PC XT]] hard drive
PROCESS OF PREPARING A DATA STORAGE DEVICE FOR INITIAL USE
Disk format; Logical formatting; Physical formatting; Low-level formatting; Reformat; Low-level format; Nuke and pave; Nuke and Pave; High-level format; Disk reinitialization; Low level format; Lowlevel format; Format program; Format disk; Fresh install; Quick Format; Zero a drive
Disk 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. In some cases, the formatting operation may also create one or more new file systems.
Floppy disk format         
LOGICAL AND PHYSICAL LAYOUT OF DATA STORED ON FLOPPY DISK
Single Sided, Double Density; Floppy disk density; Floppy disk formats; Single sided/double sided; Single-sided/double-sided; Tracks per inch; Single density disk; Soft sector; Soft sectoring; Soft-sectored; Soft-sectoring; Soft-sector
Floppy disk format and density refer to the logical and physical layout of data stored on a floppy disk. Since their introduction, there have been many popular and rare floppy disk types, densities, and formats used in computing, leading to much confusion over their differences.
disk drive         
  • A CD-ROM (optical) disc drive
  • Comparison of several forms of disk storage showing tracks (not-to-scale); green denotes start and red denotes end.<br /><nowiki>*</nowiki> Some CD-R(W) and DVD-R(W)/DVD+R(W) recorders operate in ZCLV, CAA or CAV modes.
  • Three floppy disk drives
STORAGE MECHANISMS THAT RECORD DATA ON THE SURFACE OF ROTATING DISKS
Disk drive; Computer disk; Disk Drive; Disc storage; Disc drive; Disk memory; Disc Drive; Disk (storage device); Rotating-disk memory; Data storage disk; Computer disc
<hardware, storage> (Or "hard disk drive", "hard drive", "floppy disk drive", "floppy drive") A peripheral device that reads and writes hard disks or floppy disks. The drive contains a motor to rotate the disk at a constant rate and one or more read/write heads which are positioned over the desired track by a servo mechanism. It also contains the electronics to amplify the signals from the heads to normal digital logic levels and vice versa. In order for a disk drive to start to read or write a given location a read/write head must be positioned radially over the right track and rotationally over the start of the right sector. Radial motion is known as "seeking" and it is this which causes most of the intermittent noise heard during disk activity. There is usually one head for each disk surface and all heads move together. The set of locations which are accessible with the heads in a given radial position are known as a "cylinder". The "seek time" is the time taken to seek to a different cylinder. The disk is constantly rotating (except for some floppy disk drives where the motor is switched off between accesses to reduce wear and power consumption) so positioning the heads over the right sector is simply a matter of waiting until it arrives under the head. With a single set of heads this "rotational latency" will be on average half a revolution but some big drives have multiple sets of heads spaced at equal angles around the disk. If seeking and rotation are independent, access time is seek time + rotational latency. When accessing multiple tracks sequentially, data is sometimes arranged so that by the time the seek from one track to the next has finished, the disk has rotated just enough to begin accessing the next track. See also sector interleave. The disks may be removable disks; floppy disks always are, removable hard disks were common on mainframes and minicomputers but less so on microcomputers until the mid 1990s(?) with products like the Zip Drive. A CD-ROM drive is not usually referred to as a disk drive. Two common interfaces for disk drives (and other devices) are SCSI and IDE. ST-506 used to be common in microcomputers (in the 1980s?). (1997-04-15)

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PGPDisk

PGP Virtual Disk is a disk encryption system that allows one to create a virtual encrypted disk within a file.

Older versions for Windows NT were freeware (for example, bundled with PGP v6.0.2i; and with some of the CKT builds of PGP). These are still available for download, but no longer maintained. Today, PGP Virtual Disk is available as part of the PGP Desktop product family, running on Windows 2000/XP/Vista, and Mac OS X.