Unlike high-level formatting, low-level formatting also writes extra data to the disk. Besides user data drives contain ID Mark and Sector mark information. This non-user data is used for sector addressing. Which non-user data is required depends on the drive implementation. Most manufacturers supply software to low-level format their drives.

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