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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

When a computer gets old or when you are handing it over, you must delete everything on the computer. As a matter of fact, it is important that you also securely wipe the computer so the files are not ...