Formatting your hard drive is very useful. It’s good for clearing everything off a secondary drive or when installing a new copy of Windows. Formatting is also good for cleaning up storage issues, ...

Windows XP won't let you format your C: drive from within Windows XP. Microsoft put in "suicide" prevention basically that kept people from accidentally formatting the C: drive, now Windows is smart ...

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 ...

Western Digital recently began to ship a new series of Caviar hard drives that included the company's Advanced Format technology. The new Caviar Green models are nearly identical to their standard ...

1. Formatting a hard drive deletes everything that is on that drive. It is very important to back up the drive if there’s anything that you need or want saved. Also, you’ll need to have the discs or ...