If you want to format a write-protected USB pen drive on Windows 11/10, here is how you can do that. There are three methods to format a write-protected USB flash drive, and all of them are built into ...

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, ...

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Windows The father of the Linux operating system, Linus Torvalds, says the reason why Windows has a rep for bugs and blue screens isn't down to bad code but bad memory Action Helldivers 2 cuts its ...

External drives like USB drives are extremely helpful for copying files to and fro a PC or a laptop. You can then transfer these files and use them on any device or carry them even when you are ...

Hewlett-Packard's USB Disk Storage Format Tool is a utility that you can use to format removable flash drives and other external USB hard drives. One benefit of using this tool is that you can create ...

I've made the long overdue decision to keep backups on an external USB drive, but should I go with NTFS or exFAT for the drive? We have an all Windows household here, and although I fiddle with Linux ...

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 He writes: I have a number of commercial flash drives with outdated information.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, ...