When disposing of old hard drives, it is important to ensure that no company data remains on the drive for someone to find and exploit. One way to delete data is to format a drive, using the same ...

As we approach what is the end of the fiscal year for many companies, you might be preparing to replace some of your PCs with newer models to take advantage of end-of-year hardware spends. When you do ...

I'm a bit confused as to how quick-formatting works with RAID drives and when you need to do a full format.<BR><BR>I have two identical Seagate 320 Gb drives. When I added one of them to my system, ...

Formatting your hard drive is an important step in setting up your computer. It clears all the data off the disk so that you can start fresh. DiskPart is a powerful command-line tool that allows you ...

Mounting an external hard drive isn't as simple as plugging it in. We'll walk you through some decisions you need to make. Jason Cipriani is based out of beautiful Colorado and has been covering ...

Before we begin, it’s important to know that formatting a drive will erase everything on it, so you’ll want to make sure that you back up or save anything that you don’t want to lose. After you’ve ...

Apple's computers are available with a generous amount of hard drive space, from 256 GB all the way to 8 TB on high-end models. While that may be plenty of space for most users, video editing, ...

So I bought one of these popular Advanced Format drives to use with WHS. Used Data Life Guard to scan the whole drive while connected via USB, formatted it in NTFS so my RocketRaid 2320 controller ...

The overwhelming majority of USB flash drives you buy are going to come in one of two formats: FAT32 or NTFS. The first format, FAT32, is fully compatible with Mac OS X, though with some drawbacks ...

Thumb drives are usually relatively fast when connected to a your Mac, and will mount in a few seconds and be accessible from the Desktop or Finder side-bar. This should happen as long as the format ...