Thumb drives are usually relatively fast when connected to a your Mac, and will mount in a few seconds and be accessible from the Desktop or Finder side-bar. This should happen as long as the format ...

The overwhelming majority of USB flash drives you buy are going to come in one of two formats: FAT32 or NTFS. The first format, FAT32, is fully compatible with Mac OS X, though with some drawbacks ...

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 He writes: I have a number of commercial flash drives with outdated information.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

I've got a Linksys USB thumb drive here that's hooked up to a Windows XP computer.<BR><BR>The drive letter shows up, but when I try to access it, Windows gives a ...

I just ordered a USB 2.0 keychain drive. One thing I can imagine using it for is transferring files to Window-using colleagues. At first I was thinking that I would format most of it HFS+, but then ...

Formatting a hard drive along with the install of a new OS is the best option. The vast majority of operating system installations provide a "format" option as part of the installation process.