How Do I Choose the Best Disk Formatting Software?

Quick formatting, rewriting the boot record during the formatting process, no disk bad clusters are detected, all entries in the FAT table except the bad clusters are cleared, the root directory table is empty, and the data area is unchanged. Normal formatting will rewrite the boot record, recheck the bad clusters, clear the remaining entries, clear the root directory table, and clear the data area. The quickly formatted hard disk can be recovered by technical means.

Quick format

The format command under Dos is used to format.

FORMAT A: or c :, d: etc., some parameters can be added after

For example FORMAT A: / S This is the format and append system. Is to make a simple

Format: Clear the data on the hard disk, generate the boot sector information, initialize the FAT table, mark the logical bad sectors, etc.
Quick Format: Only delete marks from the partition file allocation table (FAT table), instead of scanning the disk to check for bad sectors.
Both of these are high-level formats.

The difference between the two:

When running the general format command, each sector on the partition will be marked as free and available in the file allocation table of the current partition, and the system will scan the hard disk to check for bad sectors. The sectors are marked with available marks. Scanning for bad sectors takes most of the time to format the disk partition.
The quick format is only to clear the FAT table (file allocation table), so that the system thinks that there are no files on the disk, and does not really format all the hard disks. After the quick format, the hard disk data can be recovered by tools. Much faster is the reason. Ordinary formatting programs will scan all the tracks on the hard disk, and can detect bad tracks on the hard disk, which will be slower. In general, you can choose to format quickly and a bit faster. If you suspect that the hard disk has bad sectors, you can try ordinary formatting. In contrast, what low-level formatting does is to overwrite every sector on the disk with "00", which will completely destroy all data on the hard disk, and there is no longer the possibility of recovery.