In Disk Utility, select your external hard drive and click the Delete tab. Display the menu to the right of Format, and choose the file system with which you will format the disk. Enter a name for ...

i am currently running a gateway select900 or some such model with a 900mhz athlon and a 30gig ibm hard drive with XP Pro. i just bought mandrake 8.1 and want to partition up the drive and run a multi ...

Most external hard drives come formatted with the FAT file system, which makes the drive compatible with multiple operating systems. As such, the drive is immediately usable out of the box. If you ...