USB memory sticks offer a convenient way to store and transport business documents, so you have them with you at all times. Although the default File Allocation Table format offers greater ...

Sometimes you may find that your USB stick has a virus. In that case, you need to format it as quickly as possible in order to stop that virus from being spread to other computers. To do so, plug the ...

The chances are that at one point or the other, everyone has tried to format their USB drive in NTFS. Although, by default, Windows doesn’t allow the USB stick in the NTFS file system, it’s always ...

The setting you're looking for is in device manager.. get Properties on the drive, and go to the Policies tab. That will let you configure the write caching options for the drive, I'm not sure about ...

I have an 8GB Crucial Gizmo. I formatted it as NTFS. Worked great. Then I got a Mac. I formatted it to Mac OS Extended. Now, I can't format it back. There is a 200MB EFI/GPT partition that will not go ...

This article first appeared on January 25, 2012. You probably have more USB sticks than you know what to do with, but there may come a time when you need to format one. To do so, plug it in to your ...