Most external hard drives sold as of September 2012 come preformatted and ready to use. However, there may be times when you'll need to initialize an external hard drive, either because the drive was ...

There's more to it than you might think. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Knowing how to format a hard drive seems like something ...

“Format” as a word in computers is very popular, and a well-known word among computer users. We all have done that, especially with USB drives. That said, what people are sometimes afraid of is when ...

Whether you need to better organize your hard drive or resolve disk errors, Disk Utility is the tool for the job. Built into macOS, Disk Utility is tucked away in the Utilities folder, which is found ...

Disk partitioning–separating one physical hard drive into multiple independent volumes–can relieve all sorts of computer-related headaches, and thanks to the Disk Management tool included with Windows ...

Want to move your OS from an HDD to an SSD or copy data to a different drive? Here's how to do it safely. Palash has been writing about technology (and entertainment) for over a decade. His focus has ...

There are a few final useful utilities in Apple's Disk Utility you may not be aware of. Here's how to use them the continued exploration of the macOS tool. In the previous three installments of this ...

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In the comments on my recent posts about installing Linux on a netbook for a novice user (see my recommendations and my own results), someone mentioned that figuring out the disk partitioning was very ...