When you think of a USB flash drive, you probably only see it as a portable device for storing and transferring files between computers. USB drives are perfect for this since they're affordable, easy ...

An external hard drive is a portable piece of equipment that lets you increase the amount of storage space on your computer.

Now that so many of us are signed up to cloud storage services, USB drives aren't as ubiquitous as they once were, but they still have their uses. One of those uses is running an entire computer ...

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To format a hard drive before you start using it in Windows, use the Disk Management utility; on a Mac, use Disk Utility.