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

If you are running your own small business and work with large files, every gigabyte of disk space matters. A simple way to expand the available disk space is to use a removable hard disk. You can ...

You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications. A system recovery disk contains your as-shipped operating system. Used to format the hard disk, it ...

Disk Utility also offers a ton more functionality than this format panel. An apples to apples comparison would be Disk Utility vs the Disk Management thing (I have no idea what to call it) that ...