what is formatting hard?

..what is formatting a hard DRIVE??

Then the answer is formatting is creating a table that will enable the computer to keep track of all the data stored on your disk. It will tell it, where it start, where it ends, the directory structure, the bad segments, etc.

Every static storage (non volatile memory) form there is in this world need to be formatted before use. Without it, the drives just contains a bunch of ones and zeros that don't make sense.

TCB

If you are talking about graphic design, you might be referring to using paragraph formating vs a "hard" return.

A hard return will force the carriage return, and under HTML, usually looks like two line spaces. Graphic layout proggies like to manipulate the layout of a given body of text to MAKE it fit into a given space...which paragraph formatting allows, but a hard return can interfere with.

P.S. Please don't flame me for ending my sentence with a preposition.