Most external hard drives come formatted with the FAT file system, which makes the drive compatible with multiple operating systems. As such, the drive is immediately usable out of the box. If you ...

I partitioned my 80 gig HDD, and I allotted 30 Gigs for the OS (win 2k pro) and program files, and I allotted about 45 gigs to mp3s and movies and what not... the second disk partition i used quick ...

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use. File ...