unformatted

[uhn-fawr-mat-id]

un·for·mat·ted

[uhn-fawr-mat-id]
adjective
Computers. pertaining to a disk that has not been electronically prepared to receive files or other text; blank: You cannot save files on an unformatted disk.

Origin:
un-1 + formatted
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Unformatted is always a great word to know.
So is interleaving. Does it mean:
adjacent bits, usually eight, processed by a computer as a unit; the combination of bits used to represent a particular character
a method for making data retrieval more efficient by rearranging the sectors on a hard disk so that the they can be read in alternating cycles
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