It is pretty easy to forget to remove an USB Flash drive or stick from a computer system on shutdown. Some devices are that small that it is easy to overlook them when shutting down a computer. While that’s not a big issue at home, it can very well be one if you happen to [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Windows has a powerful dialog built in to safely eject a USB Drive. This is most likely sufficient for most users, but if you want to gain more complete control, it is possible to create a hotkey or shortcut for immediate USB drive ejection. There is a handy freeware utility called USB Disk Ejector that [...]

Categories: Software, Windows

Tony, a new user of the Ghacks forum asked for help regarding a issue with his removable hard disk and Windows 7. While the disk was showing up in the operating system, a click on it to access it in Windows Explorer yielded the error message “Insert Disk, Please Insert A Disk Into Drive” followed [...]

Categories: troubleshooting, Windows

The Ubuntu desktop distribution is full of nifty tricks. One of those tricks is the ability to create a bootable USB Ubuntu drive quickly and easily. Used to be this trick wasn’t so easy. Not only did you have to format the USB drive, you had to manually create the file systems, copy the files, [...]

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Panda Security has released a new security software program that increases the security of usb flash drives. The portable software program called USB Vaccine provides the means to vaccinate both the computer system and usb flash drives. Computer vaccination referring to disabling autorun completely from removable media like usb flash drives or optical drives like [...]

Categories: Security, Software, Windows

USB Sticks cannot contain multiple partitions by default. It is however possible to create multiple partitions on an USB stick by modifying and installing a new driver which disguises the USB stick as a USB hard drive. It is highly recommended to backup all data on the USB stick before continuing. Users who want to [...]

Categories: Hardware, Windows

USB Drive Letter Manager is a software that can manage removable devices such as USB hard drives, flash drives or card readers that are connected to a computer. The software runs on any 32-bit and 64-bit Windows NT operating system since Windows 2000 including Windows Vista. The USB Drive Letter Manager runs as a Windows [...]

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Microsoft USB Flash Drive Manager is basically a software to manage different images for USB devices. It provides options to backup the files of an USB device that is connected to the computer and to restore an image to the USB drive again. This is useful if you operate with an USB device that has [...]

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Many users think that usb flash drives are all the same. They look boring and can only be used to plug them into a usb port. The Lexar usb flash drive Jumpdrive Mercury adds one useful function to the usb drive.

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