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, ...

I just finished building my new system and installed Windows XP. I set up my 60GB hard drive into four partitions, and formatted them under the FAT32 standard. I recently found mention that XP ...

If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...