To format a disk, launch Explorer. In the left windowpane, highlight the icon of the diskette or disk you want to format, and right click the mouse. Select Format and click Start. THIS DEFINITION IS ...

Software that initializes a disk. There are two formatting levels on a magnetic medium such as a hard disk or floppy disk. The low-level format initializes the disk surface by creating the physical ...

Disk Utility also offers a ton more functionality than this format panel. An apples to apples comparison would be Disk Utility vs the Disk Management thing (I have no idea what to call it) that ...

Why it matters: There is nothing more enduring than a "temporary" code patchwork for a vast software project. Former Microsoft employee Dave Plummer provides yet another demonstration of this golden ...

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 ...

Nothing screams retrocomputing quite like floppy drives. If you want to preserve some of your favorite computing memories like that paper you wrote about the joys of the Information Superhighway, ...