Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

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 ...

You may need to format a hard drive to match your computer's operating system before you can use it. To format a hard drive in Windows, you'll use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, you'll use ...

Formatting an SSD is the best way to boost its performance or clear out any potentially malicious malware whenever you move it to a new system, purchase one second hand, or plan to sell yours on to ...

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use. File ...

I just ordered a USB 2.0 keychain drive. One thing I can imagine using it for is transferring files to Window-using colleagues. At first I was thinking that I would format most of it HFS+, but then ...

Just imagine that you're a software developer and you've got an enormous list of tasks to do. One of them happens to be creating an interface for the formatting of storage drives, so you'd probably ...

It seems more and more likely I may end up with an advanced format drive the next time I add space to my WHS. It sounds like I should be able to create the partitions on a Windows 7 machine first and ...

At The Eclectic Light Company blog, Howard Oakley writes: Over a year ago, Apple changed the way that one of the most popular formats of disk image works on APFS. This article re-evaluates the more ...

A practical detail in the upcoming new Mac operating system macOS 26 aka Tahoe: Apple has tweaked its encrypted disk images. As IT blogger and Mac & i author Howard Oakley has noticed, the Mac ...