Formatting a USB drive might seem straightforward until you're faced with options like exFAT, NTFS, and FAT32. Choosing the ...

Each format picked one thing to protect and let the rest go.

NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...

iam using the disk for playing,web browsing,music.. The trick with NTFS compression is letting the OS compress only the files that are seldom to never used. This gives you back some disk space with ...

The Disk Management Screen When you are in the disk management tool you will see a listing of your current hard drives and how they are partitioned. From the image above you can see that I have two ...

Ernie Smith is a former contributor to BizTech, an old-school blogger who specializes in side projects, and a tech history nut who researches vintage operating systems for fun. With so many emerging ...