USB Flash Drives

There is actually a 64GB BUSlink pro 2 usb stick. It is rather larger than other models but can easily fit on a keychain. But unless you have $5000 lying around its a waste of money (next year it will be like $150 -$200)

It depends on what you're going to use the flash drive for, but on standard a flash drive should be at least 1gb or 2gb.

Click on the bottom toolbar of the computer. Click on the icon on the right side of the toolbar that says "Safely Remove Hardware". Left-click on the icon to remove the USB that you are using if you are confident that that is the USB you want to eject. Right-click on the icon if you are not sure and would like to see the details of it before ejecting it. Wait for the message that instructs you to eject before removing it. Another way would be to shut down your computer before removing the USB drive. DO NOT plug it out without doing the above instructions, as this might lead to loss of information and damage the USB drive.

By clicking on the "computer" button on your start list, then find the name of your flash drive, then click on it.

A usb flash drive plugs in to the USB ports located on the sides of laptops (most commonly) or in the font or back of deskops (most commonly).
Hello im glad you asked because i will be able to help you. Alright you plug it into the usb port. Incase you dont know what that looks like here is a picture that shows you http://www.shivaranjan.com/shivaupload/windowslivewriter/10WaystoNetworkTwoComputers_11F65/USBPort.jpg Hope this helped :)

The simple way is to drag and drop a file into 'Recycling Bin' on your desktop, and then empty it by right-clicking, and selecting 'Delete'. You can also right-click on the file, choose 'Delete'. IT exports suggest using free tools like 'Eraser' to securely clean material from a hard drive so it is permanently gone.

3 Megabytes? Not very much in today's data rich world. Most songs won't fit on 3 Meg. You might be able to get a dozen or so pictures, depending on the resolution. That is a only a little more than 2 of the old 3 1/2 inch floppy disks could hold. You probably meant a 3 Gigabyte flash drive which is commonly available. Then you are talking a lot of stuff!

If you're talking about text then:

Roughly speaking one letter is one byte.

1K = 1024 bytes

1M = 1024 K

So you have 3145728 letters BUT spaces, commas, returns etc. also count as letters and formatting instructions such as font and letter size also take up room.

USB connect it to your computer. After it installs itself, a new drive will appear in the My Computer window when you open it, under the Disks with removable storage heading with a letter like drive E or F or G etc and with it's assigned name(which you can change)

It depends on the quality of the pictures, but in short, yes it can - easily.

A picture from an iphone will be about 150kb so it could hold about 55,000.

A good quality picture will be about 1MB and even then, that will hold around 8,000.

Hope this helps

An internal hard disk drive has its advantages and disadvantages. Here are the advantages: large storage capacity, stores and retrieves data much faster than a floppy disk or CD-ROM, data is not lost when you switch off the computer, usually fixed inside the computer so cannot get mislaid, cheap on a cost per megabyte compared to other storage media, hard disks can be replaced and upgraded as necessary, can have two hard disks in a machine, one can act as a mirror of the other and create a back up copy.

The advantages, on the other hand, are as follows: hard disks eventually fail which stops the computer from working, regular 'head' crashes can damage the surface of the disk, leading to loss of data in that sector, the disk is fixed inside the computer and cannot easily be transferred to another computer.

A USB or a flash drive is a device that stores date off of a computer. Now drives can be bought that are just a few megabytes, and the biggest ones available now go up to a terabyte.

The biggest disadvantage is the same with any removable data storage, that it might get lost. But more than that pen drives have relatively small storage capacity. They hold out better against CD's because they are re-writable but still, in the end it actually depends on you, the purpose and if you prefer the portability of pen drives over other storage options, like an external hard drive. Or if you chose pen drives over cloud storage because you don't always have access to the internet

Yes, it is possible to protect your hard drive using the lock command. E.g.

Lock sys: on - this will lock your partition Lock sys: off - this will unlock it.

If you wish to lock a drive other than your main partition simply substitute Sys: for the drive name.

I have a question for you: How do you turn ON write protection on your hard drive to begin with? As far as I know you can't. Hard drives were designed to be written on. You can't install an operating system on it without writing to the disk.

The only way to prevent someone from saving something would be through the operating system's security management. Before you can disable what you think is write protection, you need to understand what is protecting it to begin with.

Simple! Click Start Button > Type: Create and format hard disk partitions > Enter > Right click on your drive (the one that's write protected) > Click Offline > Right click again > Click Online. Voila! tnt4real!

Some hard drives have a jumper on them for write protect. You need to check the jumper settings

I just had this issue with one of my external hard drives. It's an internal drive that I installed into an external case and connects to my computer via FireWire. I knew it couldn't be a jumper setting, because the drive has not been removed from the case since it was put in there. I did NOT turn "ON" write protection at any time. I've been writing to this disc with no problems (daily) up until today. I tried copying a file to it, it popped up a message saying that can not write to disk, disk is write protected. I did nothing to cause this. No settings, attributes, etc. After looking around a bit with no luck (not even from here). I tried a couple of my own things. Found I could not change attributes (cause disk is write protected).

I finally unplugged the drive from the firewire port and waited a few minutes. Plugged it back in and let the computer "find" the drive again, and all is well.

The write protect is in your bios. You select "enable" write protect and it will ask you for a password. Note: not all bios versions offer this option.

I'm considering cleaning up my hard drive of all unwanted ware, especially spyware, and then turning on "write protect" for my hard drive to keep the stuff out. I'll be using a flash pen to surf with which can be cleaned much faster than a hard drive full of stuff and zillions of places for things to hide.

The post above said you turn on this feature in the bios. Can you elaborate on this as to how it's done? I have a Thinkpad r40 and can't seem to find anything on how to do it at ibm or google.

Thanks in advance...

I just had the same thing happen. Hard drive said write protected. Not even a floppy at boot would work. Then I realized when I hit delete for setup, both the hard drive and floppy were flipped to write protect in the bios.

I had the same thing happen to an old P III 800mhz computer; "write protected" message. After reading this I looked in CMOS for a setting for hard drive write protect, I have never heard of this as a bios option (floppy write protect yes, but not harddrive), did NOT find a setting for write protect for either floppy or hard, but I went ahead and did a reset CMOS to optimal setting anyway, booted and all was right with the world!

Thank you for the helpful info. I had tried everything, including fdisk/MBR, cloning to new hard drive, trying to do new install of OS on fresh drive... all failed, thought motherboard or IDE subsystem was hosed. Resetting CMOS WORKED.

If you download Windows SteadyState you have the option to limit who has access to what. You also have the option to lock your HDD. Everything you save will be undone the next time you boot. Here is the link to the download for you.

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?familyid=d077a52d-93e9-4b02-bd95-9d770ccdb431&displaylang=en#QuickDetails

Just copy and paste that website into your browser. Also this is made by Microsoft and is free.

The capacity of a USB thumb drive depends upon the size of the USB drive. If you have an 8 Gb USB drive it means, can store 8192 Megabytes of data. But it can store only 7680 Megabytes of your data; the rest of the storage is used for the system.

For a Lexmark 32GB Class 10 SDHC card

Number of Photos / RAW:

8MP: 3100

10MP: 2700

12MP: 2500

16MP: 2200

21MP: 1300

Number of Photos / JPEG:

5MP: 20300

6MP: 17300

7MP: 14200

8MP: 12900

10MP: 10100

12MP: 8600

16MP: 6400

21MP: 4600

Source B&H Photo

Every SD card should have a write protect switch located on the right edge, about 5mm from the top of the card. In order to unlock the card slide the switch upwards.

Note that with Mini SD and Micro SD (Transflash) these switches are not present. The card is always unlocked. A switch may however be present on an SD card adapter.

Because of the position of the switch they can often be switched accidentally on inserting or removing the card.

The abbreviation is of Universal Serial Bus, which refers to the way the device corresponds with a computer in order to deliver or exchange files.

The physical link is a small 4-pole connector, but there is of course a goodly amount of controlling electronics with it.

There there are very many USB devices, of which the small portable memory "stick" is perhaps the simplest. Digital cameras also use USB connections to allow you to transfer images from them to computers.

A typical chip is less than 1/4 square inches and can contain millions of electronic components

Yes, eventually through wear and tear USB card readers can stop working.

If it's an older computer game, then just copy and paste in the flash drive. Make sure you get all the files. (Also works for emulators and emulations)

If it requires a CD to work, then copy the game (CD image) and the deamon tools CD drive emulator.

If you've got the instillation file for a game, then install onto the flash drive.

If the music tracks are on your computer, you can directly move them to your flash drive. Here I would like to recommend a tool called AudiCable Audio Recorder which can record music from different platforms like Amazon Music, Spotify, Tidal Music and etc. at a high quality.

And the exported files can be saved in MP3 format, then you can easily import them to your flash drive and keep them permanently.