unformatted

unformatted definition - computer

(1) A hard disk, rewritable optical disc or floppy disk that has not been initialized and is completely blank. See format program.

(2) Without a structure. For example, an e-mail message that contains only text without any style attributes and no graphics is unformatted text. See text e-mail.



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