If you only plan on using the USB drive on Windows devices, I'd use NTFS. Otherwise FAT. Formatting stuff should be pretty much the same on any computer. If you do a quick format, it will be quick ...

There was a time when physical media dominated everything that we did on computers. You’d find yourself rushing to a computer lab to insert a floppy disk to print your report in the late 1990s and ...

Sometimes our PC fails or refuses to recognize the External Hard Drive even after confirming the successful connection. The problem occurs mostly when the device driver is either corrupted or outdated ...

Plug the box's hard drive directly into the motherboard to check if the failure is due to the hard drive. What if the hard drive is detected? It might be because the hard drive file system is not ...

A computer can recognize a second partition on a USB hard drive only if it can read the partition. If computer is unable to read the secondary partition, the partition may be in an unsupported format ...

Several users have reported that external FireWire and/or USB hard drives will not mount after updating to Mac OS X 10.4.7. MacFixIt reader Joseph Samuels writes: "I did have some trouble with one of ...

It's never a good feeling when you fire up your computer after installing a new drive and the system can't see the new hardware. Windows 7 may not recognize a new solid state drive because of an ...

I have a usb flash drive where I stored a ton of important files. The issue is few times when I connect it to my laptop, it would not recognize it. So I know there is some damage probably with it. I ...