We've all done it, plugged in a USB drive or went to wipe an old HDD and found the "Quick Format" box in Windows because we didn't want to spend hours waiting for a drive to reformat. There's a reason ...

I partitioned my 80 gig HDD, and I allotted 30 Gigs for the OS (win 2k pro) and program files, and I allotted about 45 gigs to mp3s and movies and what not... the second disk partition i used quick ...

Format is a very popular and well-known term among computer users. We all have done that, especially with USB drives. That said, what people are sometimes afraid of is formatting the hard disk and its ...