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

Mac OS X Mountain Lion gives users several ways to access the Terminal and three common options for formatting a hard drive. You can launch Terminal within Mac OS X to format hard drives currently not ...

While formatting a partition, if you see a message Windows cannot format the system partition on this disk then this post will help you. Although it is a rare error ...