We commonly use USB or Flash Drives to transfer the data or to carry some datas with you while you on work or while travelling. While using USB or Flash drives in any of the operating system avaliable in the market you will see an option to safely remove your device. You can ask a question what is the use of safely removing USB. 

When we plug our Flash or USB drives into our system or in a laptop there is some transfer of data from between the devices. Once we finished transferring the data from system to usb or flash devices you may not notice some of the datas are working with some of the application in the background. But when we safely remove the device will help the system to stop those background applications and it won't cause any problems to system and the usb drives.

When just plug off your device from a system or from a laptop it may corrupt the data in the usb drive or the datas copied to that drive. Sometimes this will cause the USB drive with some problems such as it won't get detected on a particular system or i wont allow you to copy data into that device. Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

In any USB drives or in Flash drives sometimes these drive is empty but when you check it in properties it may show you some spaced is occupied but and also you might wonder why this still there after formatting these drives for few times. You may thought some of the files are hidden in that drives, Here we list the possible options to retrieve those data or to clean those memory.

There is possibility of availability of some of the hidden files in those drives, follow these steps to to show the hidden files in flash or in USB drives.

* Plugin the USB or Flash Drives

* Go to run (Windows key + R)

* type CMD

* In the following window enter the following command

   ATTRIB(SPACE)-R(SPACE)-A(SPACE)-S

   For example ATTRIB -R -A -S -H /S /D F:*.*

* Hit enter 

* Close the command prompt window

* Go the flash drive or to USB drive, you will find hidden files if any

Another method to remove those data and clear the drives is by formatting those drives. Format those USB or Flash Drives as usual, but make sure you unmarked the quick formatting option. It may take more time to complete than usual and i am sure your drives is cleared and nothing is present., Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

While we using our flash or USB drive we may sometimes accidently deleted our data and it may be much important source such as project files or some personal files or important data's you collected from a rare source. This data can recovered by using some premium licence recovery software. 

Steps to Recover Data from a USB or Flash drive

* Insert your USB or flash drive 

* Download and install any of one recovery software for free or buy commercial licence

* Install any of the recovery software from that list 

* Open the software

* select the drive you want to recover file

* Select your USB or Flash Drive 

* Select the type of the file you want to recover (Ex Doc or picture or video)

* Please Note that the recovery process may take very long time to complete

* Select a specific data type or select all file format to recover all files

* Once you select the file format click on start to start the process

* Select the destination folder to get the recovered file

Note;

* Recovery process may take very long time may be a day or more in some case

* Some or many of the files you recovered may be partial or some may not work

* In some cases you won't get all the files in that USB or Flash Drive

Hope this information might be useful and it might help you to solve the issues, Happy Computing !

When we copy a file in image format of some 4GB in size from system to usb or flash drive of 16GB. You may get this error " File too large for destination file system ". You may wonder how this happens when copying file of some 4GB to 16GB drive ? Here is the possible explanation and solution for this problems.

Most of the USB or Flash Drives are formatted to FAT32 format. It is limited to single file size of 3.99GB. But when copying file in image format of size more than 4GB are considered as single file and it won't copy to the destination folder. The complete image file is considered as a single file. From this you may clear that you can't copy single file of size more than 4GB.

How to copy this file into a USB drive ?

This files can be copied into a USB drive but you must have your USB or flash drive in NTFS format. Format your pen drive to NTFS. While formating it select format as NTFS in format menu and click format and it will take some time. Once format is completed now your usb or flash drive in NTFS format. It will support copying single file of large size.

Other option to copy this file to usb or flash drive is to split the file of large size into two or more files of smaller size using the utilities such as winrar and so on. Image files can be extracted using winrar or by using tools such as daemon tool. Extract the file of large size convert them into smaller size. Now copy this files to your usb or flash drive. Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

Once we installed windows and by day by day work lot of dumb files may add in our system cache memory and by this process system may become slow and it kills your time more for simple work, so we might plan to reinstall windows. In some cases windows may be corrupted due to many reasons and you want to reinstall windows in your laptop or in desktop.

Reinstall windows is an easy task, reinstall windows can be done by using bootable DVD drive or by using a bootable USB Flash drive. Here we list few methods to make usb flash drive bootable.

USB Flash Drive can be made bootable by using command prompt or by using few softwares. 

* Bootable USB drive by Command prompt
* Bootable USB drive by Magic ISO Maker
* Bootable USB Drive by Power ISO Software

Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

When plug and we use a flash drive there might be lot of problems and lot of error messages. Here we list a usb flash drive based problems. Error code "Error loading KDSQ FUJII.ini" or when you plug a flash drive all folders and files are in shortcut. Here we list few steps to remove the shortcut problems,

* Download Virus Remover file

* Copy the file and paste it in flash drive

* Run the file and press any key twice

* It will remove all virus and other programs that cause errors

Note:

* Care should be taken while copying files from untrusted system 

* Don't follow links in the untrusted sites

* Use Flash Drives in trusted systems

Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

When using laptop with lower RAM and it makes things slower and lot of time to process the data and respond to a click. How to boost RAM in a laptop ? Here we list a suitable option for this question. 

* When you plug a flash drive on your laptop, it will show you a pop up 

* Select Readyboost in that option 

* In the following window it will allow you to select how much memory you will use for Readyboost

* In the same window windows will suggest the required amount of space for optimal performance

It is advised to use flash drive with more than 1GB of free space to Readyboost or you will find a error message. You is also advised to use flash drive with double the amount of free space as your laptop RAM memory. Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !

When we buy a usb accessories for our laptop we might heard of this USB 3.0 and USB 2.0. We might also got a question which is faster in accessing data ? Here are few factors we must take a look at it.

USB 2.0 is capable of transferring data at a rate of 480Mbps and it works in half duplex mode of communication. USB 3.0 is capable of transferring data at a rate of 4.8Gbps and it works in asynchronous mechanism, Full duplex mode of communication. Now you can judge of your own which version of USB is faster.

But while using in your laptop you wanna make sure that your laptop buses are capable of accessing those high quality of data. Lower bus capacity may lead to low data accessing speed. Hope this information might be useful for you, Happy Computing !