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

If you are running your own small business and work with large files, every gigabyte of disk space matters. A simple way to expand the available disk space is to use a removable hard disk. You can ...

You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications. A system recovery disk contains your as-shipped operating system. Used to format the hard disk, it ...

Will it break Windows XP compatibility? Windows XP and other older OSes work by accessing specific disk sectors, not by using 'atomic writes' that work on byte-level data placements that we see in ...

Windows 11 has done a lot to update and modernize long-neglected parts of Windows' user interface, including many Settings menus and venerable apps like Notepad and Paint. But if you dig deep enough, ...

TOKYO — A 730-Mbyte-capacity magneto-optical disk format is poised to join the already crowded market for portable storage. The 50-mm-diameter intelligent image + Disk (iD) will hit the Japanese ...

Performance in Windows 7, where the drives are natively accessed in 4KB sectors, saw a doubling in performance in 4KB read and write over the older 512B drive. In fact, the new EARS disk was almost ...