- Formatting – preparing new disk for use by printing sectors, tracks on the surface of the disk.
- S canning- Helps the user to check and repair minor drive problems such as lost storage locations.
- Defragmenting a disk – consolidating fragments on a disk so that each file occupies a single, contiguous space on the drive.
- Compressing- Reducing the amount of space the files occupies on a drive.
- Backing up of data – enables users to create copies of data and programs.
- Partitioning – Process of dividing large physical disk into 2 or more patitions called logical drives.
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