How to format a thumb drive to work with Windows PCs and Macs using macOS Monterey Your email has been sent Occasionally the need arises to use a thumb drive to store ...

Reader Dan Coates believes in recycling (or, at least, reformatting). He writes: I have a number of commercial flash drives with outdated information. How can I unlock them for reuse? Increasingly, ...

In Defragging: Why, How, and Whether, I warned that defragging can wear out solid state drives. Howard Meyer asked if it was safe to format flash drives and memory cards. Regular defragging can wear ...

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

I recently downloaded TrueCrypt for the purposes of using it on my new 32 GB USB Thumb Drive.<BR><BR>The USB Thumb Drive is formatted in FAT32 via Windows XP. There is no option to select NTFS when I ...

When working with a USB drive in your small business, one or more of its sectors might be unreadable due to permanent damage. Although the Windows 7 operating system is unable to access some sectors, ...

Are you unable to format a USB drive to the FAT32 system on your Windows 11/10 computerm? Some users have reported that Windows does not let them format their USB drives to FAT32. However, many users ...

Formatting an external storage drive can serve various purposes, whether it's preparing a USB drive for a fresh start, clearing out an external SSD, or adapting a hard drive for compatibility with ...

When you're reformatting a drive, memory card, or flash drive you need to pick a file format. If you see FAT32, exFAT, and NTFS, but don't know which one to pick, here's what you need to know. A file ...

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So, I recently bought a Samsung NC-10 and enjoy the size and battery life of it, although I find the transition from the Mac that I'd been using to XP to be a bit jarring, aesthetically. I remember ...