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 ...

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.

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

While formatting a partition, if you see a message Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk then this post will help you. Although it is a rare error ...

When you're reformatting a drive, memory card, or flash drive you need to pick a file format. If you see FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, but don't know which one to pick, here's what you need to know. A file ...