Technically, it has never been a problem to format USB drives with a storage capacity of more than 32GB with the FAT32 file system. Only Windows itself has never been able to do this, so you always ...

If permissions are regularly changing and your system is slowing down, problems with the hard drive's formatting may be to blame. Topher, an avid Mac user for the past 15 years, has been a ...

This may sound like a stupid question, but couldn't you just use Debian as sort of a Live CD for formating the drive (CTRL-ALT-F2 takes you into an ash shell, use fdisk in there), and skip formating ...