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 ...

This CNET TV video gives you step-by-step instructions on how to set up your external hard drive so it can be used on a Windows machine and on your Mac. Joe is a seasoned Mac veteran with years of ...

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 ...

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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.

If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly. While there is a lot of interoperability between Apple's ...

is it possible to format a HD in DOS format in OS X? i need to be able to swap a portable firewire drive between my OS X box and the win2k boxes in my school's lab. my prof says its no prob, but OS ...

Mac OS X’s optical-disc-burning functionality has improved with every release, but one task remains a hassle: erasing rewriteable discs. As their name implies, rewriteable discs—more commonly known as ...

Ok, I change OS's like the seasons and I was just wondering if formatting and creating/deleting partitions is going to do anything bad to my hdd. I have 2 hdd's and I only install OS's and whatnot on ...