


As a simple analogy are you going to have a filing cabinet with folders labeled alphabetically, or a card system arranged by category and the files stored on numbered shelves. In this article we cover how to format, then look at the recommended uses and limitations of the available files systems.įormatting a hard drive or any data storage device is merely defining the file system that the device is going to use. Entire libraries have been written about file systems but all we want to know is which should we choose for a particular operating system or that data partition or device we want to share across different platforms.
