A friend of mine asked me to fix his USB flash drive. It's an HP 4GB drive. My notebook is running Windows 7 64-bit. When I connected the drive to my computer, Windows installed the drivers but it ...

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 ...

Back at the beginning of last year, EDN published my dissection of a yellow-color ADATA UV128 16 GByte USB flash drive that for unknown reasons had died on me: it doesn’t “mount” in either Finder or ...

I am using a Linux server (CentOS 5) to store data backed up via Rsync from different Windows machines. The software I am using allows me to seed a backup to a USB drive on the Windows machine, then ...

A B.Tech (Computer Science) engineer turned writer, Varun has over 7 years of experience in tech journalism. He started his journey by writing for various publications like Beebom and Mr. Phone, ...

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 ...

Think about your desk in your office — your desktop and drawers are likely littered with USB flash drives. They are given out at conferences and trade shows, and they are now a ubiquitous staple of ...