To make your Western Digital hard drive work on both Mac and Windows computers, you need to format the drive with the FAT32 file system. Although both operating systems can format your drive with the ...

Apple computers configure hard drives differently than Windows computers. Windows uses NTFS or FAT32 as their native file system while Apple uses HFS+. Apple does not support the NTFS files system but ...

Before we begin, it’s important to know that formatting a drive will erase everything on it, so you’ll want to make sure that you back up or save anything that you don’t want to lose. After you’ve ...

You may need to format a hard drive to match your computer's operating system before you can use it. To format a hard drive in Windows, you'll use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, you'll use ...

In installing Windows XP Pro on a newly completed computer the program will format and partition but only in NTFS but I want to use FAT32. I would fdisk, partition and format with fat 32 but when I ...