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 ...

Is there a freeware NTFS format program (that does what the XP setup does when you choose how to prepare a partition)? There are some retail hard drive kits that have disks with these kinds of ...

After our Windows encryption showdown, reader Jerod passed along this tip to make sure your encrypted volumes, especially external hard drives, in Windows play nicely with other platforms like OS ...