How to format a hard drive for use on a PC or Mac computer

To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.
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"Formatting" a hard drive

I have a hard drive (internal), currently my secondary HDD, that still contains an OS and various other stuff, that I would like to "clean up" so there is a whole bunch of space on it for future use.
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Formatting hard drive from floppy???

Hello all. I'm having a problem with my OS. I deleted all my partitions but one (my media partition) that I wish to keep. It is formatted NTFS and is about 92GB. Now, I have two more partitions that I ...