Inventec Corp.

Miao Liu

Hsuan-Tung Chen

Kuang-Hsin Lin

A method for quickly formatting a disk is disclosed. It can save lots of time when a disk or a disk partition is formatted. The technique of this invention redirects the interrupt instruction of the BIOS to get the disk (or disk partition) information which includes the sector number, starting location and type thereof. According to the disk (or disk partition) type (FAT 16 or FAT 32), the section number of the file allocation table (FAT) is rearrange by a logical operation unit. Then write the boot record to the mapped location and clear the FAT and file directory to zero to accomplish disk formatting procedure.

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Tianjin, China

Miao Liu