Windows flash drive formatting issue
I tried to format a flash drive in NTFS, but it seems to take forever to complete formatting. Is this normal? I also tried formatting the same flash drive in exFAT, which took much less time to complete. However, I can’t use the flash drive with my laptop because it doesn’t have exFAT as a [...]

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2012  2:07 PM
exFAT, File System, Flash drive, NTFS, Thumb Drive Formatting, USB drive, USB Flash drives

Allocate Unallocated space on a flash drive…
I recently downloaded a Dell diagnostic tool to my flash drive. It converted it from an 8GB NTFS drive to a 2GB FAT drive with 6GB of unallocated space. I thought this was fine at the time as I planned to simply convert it back to NTFS and reallocate the memory. However, I’m unable to [...]

Answer Question   |  May 8, 2013  6:14 PM
FAT, Flash drive, NTFS, Thumb Drive Formatting

Thumb drive formatting
I have a thumb drive with items saved on it. All of a sudden my computer is saying the drive is not formatted and wants to do so. How can I open the thumb drive and will I lose the information saved on it?

Answer Question   |  January 30, 2012  8:37 PM
Thumb drive, Thumb Drive Formatting, USB Flash drives