If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly. While there is a lot of interoperability between Apple's ...

Apple's computers are available with a generous amount of hard drive space, from 256 GB all the way to 8 TB on high-end models. While that may be plenty of space for most users, video editing, ...

File management plays the most crucial role in a computer system. It controls how data are stored, organized, and retrieved from a storage medium. In other words, it simply separates data on the drive ...

If you are someone who uses different operating systems — presumably macOS and Windows — you might often find the need to view/share/transfer files between the two systems. While one way to go about ...

Q I use a 1-gigabyte USB flash drive to move files between my Windows laptop PC at work and my MacBook portable at home. But that doesn't work with the 160-gigabyte external drive I use to back up my ...

We've received a number of reports from a reader who, after extensive testing, has found that transferring files using PC-formatted removable storage -- such as a Zip disk or a "memory stick" -- ...

If you’re installing a new hard drive, or need to wipe your drive clean for that “fresh” feeling, you’ll end up formatting your drive. Formatting will check the drive for errors, and prepare it for ...