To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.

Whether you've replaced your computer's hard drive or are getting rid of an entire computer, it's important to wipe the old hard drive. Employing a hard drive wipe utility helps to ensure that ...

In the world of hard drive information utilities, https://www.pcworld.com/downloads/file/fid,198433/description.html (free) is a gem. A venerable one at that–it’s ...

You can partition a hard drive with Windows' Disk Management utility by shrinking the existing partition and formatting the ...

Cloning a hard drive on a Mac is a different process. If you have a newer MacBook or iMac, you can't swap out the hard disk on it. The Apple Silicon-based Macs have the storage soldered in, so there's ...

Hard Disk ToolKit 4.5 is the latest update of this disk driver, format and management system. New features include enhancements for FireWire disk drives, including RAID Level 0 and 1 support and a ...

We previously featured a list of tips for keeping your hard drive healthy and running for a long time, and as promised, we will now feature some of the best tools for analyzing and, if needed, ...

I have a Seagate external backup drive that won't mount. Won't repair in Disk Utility, but I can see it's there. Disk First Aid fails with "File system check exit code is 8" Haven't had to go this ...

Disk Utility is a hard disk management application that comes with the Mac operating system. The software offers a number of hard drive management functions, including the ability to partition and ...

TL;DR - every external HDD gets "the volume /dev/rdisk[X]s1 [with UUID etc] was found to be corrupt and needs to be repaired" (it doesn't repair it). Even though those disks were fully erased and ...