Formatting a hard drive along with the install of a new OS is the best option. The vast majority of operating system installations provide a "format" option as part of the installation process.

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 ...

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 ...

Happy Mountain Lion Day! Now that you have downloaded the 4.34GB installer, you may want to install Mountain Lion on more than one of your personal machines. Do you really need to wait 45 minutes or ...

9to5Mac yesterday briefly touched on the subject of installing Lion by noting that you’ll need at least 17 gigabytes of free space: Four gigabyte for the Lion installer itself and at least 13GB ...

Microsoft just made it feasible to install Windows on a small capacity solid state drive (SSD) or hard drive with not much space left. Using a new deployment option called Windows Image Boot, or ...

Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author to MacFixIt since the spring of 2008. One of his passions is troubleshooting Mac problems and making the best use of Macs ...

Q: My laptop doesn't have enough space to install an operating-system update. What's the easiest way to free up some room? A: For a while, this question had gone out of style as ever-larger hard ...

Google offers a free, lightweight operating system that essentially turns any machine into a Chromebook. It's a great way to ...

Getting Lion from the App Store is convenient, but if you want a physical copy of the installation, you can easily make your own Lion install DVD or USB drive with Disk Utility. If you want to do a ...