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Despite the popularity of AirDrop, cloud services and email, the most convenient way to share files is sometimes with a thumb drive. See how to format a drive to work with Windows PCs and Macs.

When you connect a new USB drive or external drive to a laptop, phone, or another storage-compatible device, it's mostly unusable until you format it. Formatting a drive helps prepare and set up the ...

I recently got a Sandisk Cruzer 2 GB USB drive... Since I use it mainly to move files between my home/work Macs, I'm planning to nuke the U3 software and reformat the drive as a single partition. The ...