CNET and Major Geeks offer hard drive utilities for download. Seagate, Softpedia and Terabyte Unlimited also offer hard drive utility downloads. PC Support and PC World have lists of the best available utility downloads on the web.
In the Applications folder is a folder called Utilities. In the Utilities folder is Disk Utility. Disk Utility will Erase / Partition / Format a hard drive.
You do need a hard drive to download expansions, but the system won't turn on if you don't have a hard drive, so if you can turn it on without problems, and can play games then you definitely have a hard drive and you are able to download expansions.
download it to your hard drive, then drag and drop onto the flash drive
There are utilities for doing this. If you really, REALLY want it wiped, you can download a CD image called DBAN (Darik's Boot and Nuke) which will completely wipe out all the information on the hard drive. You can set it to run mutiple passes filling up the hard drive with garbage so that even very advanced techniques will not be able to recover anything.
Some common utilities for partitioning hard drives include Disk Management (Windows), Disk Utility (Mac), and GParted (Linux). These utilities allow you to create, resize, delete, and format partitions on your hard drive.
Yes, as long the hard disk drive is not NTFS formatted.
Some hard drive perfomance can be improved through special utilities. Check the manufacture website for such software. I know that Western Digital has software to check and fix your hard drive.
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The area on the hard drive that contains a map to all the partition on the drive is called the partition table. That is what partition utilities edit when you add, delete, convert, or resize a partition.