Definition of "unformatted" []

• Not being in or having a proper format: unformatted text. (adjective)
• Computer Science Not formatted into sectors, thus not allowing data to be stored: an unformatted disk. (adjective)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

• "Paste Special, also typically available in the Edit menu, allows you to choose "unformatted" text, which is better if you are pasting text into a document and want the new text to take on the current document's style or format."
• "Now to install Solaris, I need to create a "unformatted" partition."
• "The worst part being, If you tell Solaris to install on the "unformatted" partition that we created, it deletes the linux-swap partition and puts it into the "unallocated" pool!!!!"