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 ...

I'm always given an option between these two for formatting disks. And I always choose the normal way because I want to be safe.<BR><BR>Is there any real difference between quick format and a normal ...

I'm a bit confused as to how quick-formatting works with RAID drives and when you need to do a full format.<BR><BR>I have two identical Seagate 320 Gb drives. When I added one of them to my system, ...