I have grown to hate working on GPT protective formatted computers. When windows stops coming up I plug the harddrive to my Apricorn USB to harddrive reader and it shows up in device manager but I ...

How to format an external hard drive or flash drive If you want to re-format an external hard drive (a drive you plug into your computer, instead of installing inside of your computer) or flash ...

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