You may want to format your hard drive if it contains outdated business files or communications.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 ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Warner Brothers — a major proponent of the original DVD format — plans to announce at the CES ...

Every now and then tech companies will launch a product that'll make you think, "Wait, why weren't we doing this all along?" Universal Studio's new "Flipper" disc is one of those: a two-in-one disc ...

Will it break Windows XP compatibility? Windows XP and other older OSes work by accessing specific disk sectors, not by using 'atomic writes' that work on byte-level data placements that we see in ...

Perhaps not everyone will agree with us, but here at Gizmodo, we’ve officially declared Blu-Ray the winner over HD DVD in the battle to be DVD’s replacement format. It’s technically superior to HD DVD ...

Study Shows Technology Company Support, Capacity and Ability to Play Discs Across More Brand-Name Players, Computers, and Gaming Machines Drive Preference HOLLYWOOD, July 13, 2005 – A new poll ...

The Blu-ray Disc Association (BDA) just announced the finalization and release of the specifications for BDXL™, the new multi-layer recordable Blu-ray Disc™ format with up to 128GB of capacity. With ...

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 ...

Royal Philips Electronics, one of the world’s biggest electronics companies and Europe’s largest, is co-developing the Blu-ray Disc as the next generation optical disc format. The Blu-ray Disc is ...

We're sure you've heard the hubbub about the upcoming 4K Advanced Format for hard disks, especially as it's likely every new high capacity hard disk product shipping by the end of this year will ...