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HIGH LEVEL FORMATTING
Formatting performed by the operating system's format program (for example, the DOS FORMAT program). Among other things, the formatting program creates the root directory, file allocation tables, and other basic configurations. See low level formatting.
ALSO SEE: LOW LEVEL FORMATTING

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