Learn how to wipe a hard drive in Windows 7 safely using built-in tools, Command Prompt, or third-party software.

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

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 ...

For those of us who rarely transfer files physically across devices, file-format capability may be a distant memory. It used to occupy a lot of attention. But it still crops up whenever you’re trying ...