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

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 ...

Apple's computers are available with a generous amount of hard drive space, from 256 GB all the way to 8 TB on high-end models. While that may be plenty of space for most users, video editing, ...

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...

I just picked up some external hard drives but can't decide what to format them as. Mac OS Journaled or exFat? Is there any speed difference between the two? I assume exFAT isn't much better than ...

How to format a thumb drive to work with Windows PCs and Macs using macOS Monterey Your email has been sent Occasionally the need arises to use a thumb drive to store ...

Cloning a hard drive on a Mac is a different process. If you have a newer MacBook or iMac, you can't swap out the hard disk on it. The Apple Silicon-based Macs have the storage soldered in, so there's ...

The Mac OS X Lion operating system includes a recovery utility that you can use to reinstall the operating system if necessary. If you have a partitioned hard drive, you simply need to select the ...

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