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Diamond-Like Carbon (DLC) was gradually converted to the disordered graphite by means of heat-treatment (HT). According to Raman spectroscopy and x-ray diffraction (XRD), the disorder nature of the structure is modified from atomic scale sp2/sp3 disorder to disordered sp2-domain network by the migration of sp3-defects induced by HT at temperatures 200 - 400°C. The structural change increases conductivity and modifies the hopping conduction mechanism at low temperatures. The slight positive thermoelectric power for samples with graphitic domains is suggestive of carrier compensation by the competition of hole and electron carriers that originates from the inhomogeneous charge distribution caused by the difference of Fermi levels among the sp2-domains.