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 ...

Sometimes installing OS X may result in odd behavior if the partition scheme on the drive is not set up properly. If you are experiencing problems, a simple repartition during setup may be an easy fix ...

Formatting a hard drive along with the install of a new OS is the best option. The vast majority of operating system installations provide a "format" option as part of the installation process.

We've received notes from some readers indicating problems installing Mac OS X on drives that contain more than one partition. In these cases, some users find that formatting a drive with only a ...

The NTFS file system was originally introduced with business applications in mind due to the enhanced reliability and security it offers. All hard drive partitions are, by default, formatted using the ...

While formatting a partition, if you see a message Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk then this post will help you. Although it is a rare error ...

Delete is not allowed on the current boot, system, pagefile, crashdump or hibernation volume. The above error message prevents users from deleting a particular ...

It was 2009 when Apple last released a new operating system on physical media. Things have proceeded remarkably smoothly since version 10.7 switched to download-only installers, but there are still ...

When Apple released OS X 10.7 two years ago, it stopped selling operating system DVDs in its stores, stopped shipping recovery disks with new Macs, and switched to downloadable installers for OS X ...