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, ...

Reformatting a hard drive erases all of the information on the disk and recreates the file system architecture that is responsible for organizing data on the drive. Most malware can be removed using ...

I'm changing a HDD on a Compaq machine (from the original 30GB to a used 160GB Barracuda) and during the XP setup phase, it's taking an unusually long time to perform an HD format (not quick format) ...

Western Digital recently began to ship a new series of Caviar hard drives that included the company's Advanced Format technology. The new Caviar Green models are nearly identical to their standard ...

If you try to format a hard drive on your Windows 11/10 system and you receive an error that says Windows cannot format this drive, then this post will help you with ...

This post is for those that are still, and will be for a while, users of Windows XP. If that isn’t you then look away – or maybe gloat a little. This post is for those that are still, and will be for ...

OK so I have two partitions in my drive. The E drive contains XP. I backed up everything to the C partition and am ready to format E.<br> I can't find a way to boot up at Dos prompt. So how do I ...

More reliable hard drives that use less power are set to hit the shelves by early 2011 -- but Windows XP users beware. The modern drives will use an "advanced format" that changes how they store data; ...

This post is for those that are still, and will be for a while, users of Windows XP. If that isn’t you then look away – or maybe gloat a little. It seems that XP users could hit a tricky patch if they ...

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 ...