A recovery USB drive is a separate, portable flash drive that your computer can use instead of your main hard drive to start up from.

We cover how you should format your USB drive before using it as a storage device, and which format to use - APFS, exFAT or Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

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.

What do you use your USB flash drive for? How about maintaining a Windows computer? Parted Magic is a nifty partitioning tool that also includes a suite of other useful utilities.

If you're a beginner trying to copy files to and from a flash drive, use these steps to perform the task on Windows 10.

Tech Computing 10 awesome ways to use a USB flash drive Find out how versatile your thumbdrive is with these 10 little-known uses and tricks.

So you want to take Windows 8 for a spin on a computer that doesn’t have a disc drive? Not a problem. While Microsoft has only released a disc image of Windows 8 Developer Preview, you can use ...