Majid was unable to copy a movie from his PC to his newly acquired 32GB USB key, and wondered why. He sent me a screenshot that clearly indicated the problem, as it read “The file is too large for the ...

If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly. While there is a lot of interoperability between Apple's ...

Sometimes when you plug a USB drive into your PC it doesn't show up. We're going to look at a few ways to fix that problem.

For those of us who rarely transfer files physically across devices, file-format capability may be a distant memory. It used to occupy a lot of attention. But it still crops up whenever you’re trying ...

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 ...

After our Windows encryption showdown, reader Jerod passed along this tip to make sure your encrypted volumes, especially external hard drives, in Windows play nicely with other platforms like OS ...

Why is your USB drive so slow? If your drive is formatted in FAT32 or exFAT (the latter of which can handle larger capacity drives), you have your answer. USB drive vendors tend to format their drives ...

You can format your HDD, SSD, Memory Card, etc., using these free file system management tools or FAT32 format tools. Windows File Explorer is the default option you can use to format a drive in FAT32 ...

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 He writes: I have a number of commercial flash drives with outdated information.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

If you need to read HFS+ disks on your Android device, this software makes it possible. The inability to read Apple’s natively formatted HFS+ disks on an Android device is a rather petty issue, even ...