Flash drives, or thumb drives, are portable devices that provide easy access to flash storage. Commonly used to take backups, transfer files between devices, and install operating system images, these ...

If you have a flash drive with several gigabytes of storage, you can configure multiple partitions to use different file systems or protect files with encryption. Here's how to do just that on Windows ...

External hard drives are extremely useful because of their portability. Many are taken on the go, especially for any business employee with large or time-sensitive files; they can be taken from home ...

In this post, we will see how to password protect PDF, Excel, Word, Office documents, OneNote notes, Files, Folder, Zip file, Games, Images, applications, installed ...

For better or worse, the flash drive has become a ubiquitous tool for transporting data on campus. Here's how to keep that data secure. An interesting development has quietly transpired over the past ...

In macOS Mojave, you can choose to encrypt and decrypt disks on the fly right from the desktop. Using this convenient Finder option, we're going to show you how to encrypt a USB flash drive (or "thumb ...

Enddylopez asked the Hard Drives, NAS Drives, Storage forum about password protecting a flash drive. If a flash drive contains sensitive information–such as bank account statements, credit card ...

If you want to format a write-protected USB pen drive on Windows 11/10, here is how you can do that. There are three methods to format a write-protected USB flash drive, and all of them are built into ...

Enabling write protection on a Universal Serial Bus drive prevents users from adding, copying or deleting data from the device. If you've inserted a USB drive into your Microsoft Windows 7 computer ...