Wiping a drive before selling it is very important. Not just because whoever's going to use it next needs the space, but also because you don't want them snooping through your files after you sold it.

Unlike internal solid state drives, recovering deleted files from USB flash drives isn't difficult. Formatting USB flash drives will help prevent recovery, but only if you use the normal format. Our ...

A Quick Format will rebuild the file system, volume label, and cluster size. A Full Format will delete the files, rebuild the file system, volume label, cluster size & scan the partition for bad ...

Most external hard drives come formatted with the FAT file system, which makes the drive compatible with multiple operating systems. As such, the drive is immediately usable out of the box. If you ...