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How to Format a hard drive with the Mac Disk Utility

Apr 17, 2008 10:00 PM

Formatting a hard drive is not exactly an essential computer skill, but it certainly is if you're a technie who's looking to start building your own computers. Hard drive formatting involves erasing/formating a hard drive or USB flash drive to be compatible with different formats like MAC OS Extended and Windows OS.

Check out the video to learn how to format a hard drive using the MAC Disk Utility. You'll also find out how to name hard drives and create partitions.

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