Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

Whether you're looking to reinstall Windows, retire one of your company's computers, or just prepare a second hard drive for reuse, it's a good idea to wipe the drive first by formatting it. You can ...

I recently said that an MS-DOS boot disk couldn’t be created in Windows 2000. As several readers pointed out, this isn’t quite true. An MS-DOS boot disk can be created using files located on the ...

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...

I have windows XP Pro and when I first got it I just did the upgrade option on it. Now I wasnt to format and get rid of everthing and get a clean install and start over from scratch. I tried it on my ...

I've got my 80 GB drive in and ready to go, but I've now run into another problem. Originally, I planned to just formatt the drive when I reinstalled WinXP on the 20 GB HD. However, I could only do so ...

When using Boot Camp Assistant on your macOS, if you receive an error saying — Please format the USB drive as single FAT partition, then this post will help you ...

The boot drive's format and partition structure can be checked both in the OS X graphical interface and in the Terminal. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a contributing author ...

Boot disk recovery and repair toolkits don’t get any better than this Windows-based environment. The more things change, the more things stay the same. For Active@ Boot Disk 7.1, that means continuing ...