To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

How do I format a hard drive? A computer hard drive stores your files, allowing you to access them at any time. The majority of the time, you want these files to remain stored properly and safely.

Before we begin, it’s important to know that formatting a drive will erase everything on it, so you’ll want to make sure that you back up or save anything that you don’t want to lose. After you’ve ...

If you are running your own small business and work with large files, every gigabyte of disk space matters. A simple way to expand the available disk space is to use a removable hard disk. You can ...

Anyone know what happens if a format on a hard drive is interrupted? I was formatting a partition with disk management in Windows XP. I was at about the 22% mark when ATITool caused my computer to ...

When disposing of old hard drives, it is important to ensure that no company data remains on the drive for someone to find and exploit. One way to delete data is to format a drive, using the same ...

As we approach what is the end of the fiscal year for many companies, you might be preparing to replace some of your PCs with newer models to take advantage of end-of-year hardware spends. When you do ...

Formatting your hard drive is very useful. It’s good for clearing everything off a secondary drive or when installing a new copy of Windows. Formatting is also good for cleaning up storage issues, ...