Formatting your hard drive is very useful. It’s good for clearing everything off a secondary drive or when installing a new copy of Windows. Formatting is also good for cleaning up storage ...

I am trying to format my hardrive but cant for some reason. I have windows xp pro - i knew how to do it with win98 - will someone please help me!!

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use.