Terms like hard disk, drive, partition, and image are often confusing. Knowing the difference saves time and avoids errors ...

A partition separates a section of a physical disk into another virtual drive. When you split a hard drive into two partitions, you're creating a separate disk that your operating system (like ...

Situation: Want to format a firewire drive in X as a Fat 32 type partition. Can it be done? Don't see the option in the disc utilities program and some searching hasn't lead me anywhere.

To partition and format a disk in OS X, you generally open Disk Utility, select the disk in the tool's sidebar, and click use the Partition tab to select and apply a partition scheme; however ...