Here is a question from reader Danny. “I have XP Pro installed at the moment and I would like to format my hard drive so that I can install 2000. Apart from hooking my drive up as a slave to another ...

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...

Whether you're looking to reinstall Windows, retire one of your company's computers, or just prepare a second hard drive for reuse, it's a good idea to wipe the drive first by formatting it. You can ...

I mentioned before that you could create an MS-DOS boot disk in Windows XP. Several readers have asked about the procedure, so here it is. Insert a disk into your floppy disk drive and run Windows ...

I have windows XP Pro and when I first got it I just did the upgrade option on it. Now I wasnt to format and get rid of everthing and get a clean install and start over from scratch. I tried it on my ...

In order to perform this procedure, you will need an external FireWire hard drive, as well as copies of Mac OS X for both Intel-based and PowerPC-based Macs. You will also need access to both an Intel ...

Given only a Win2k installation is there any way to boot to DOS/make a DOS boot disk?<P>Ideally I'd like to format a 10 Meg partition as a bootable DOS drive. A borrowed Win95 install disk got the ...