Tag Results For: flash drive

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Disconnect USB Devices Without Using Safely Remove Hardware Option [Tip]

When you started using your first USB flash drive, someone must have told you to always use the “Safely Remove Hardware” option before pulling out of your computer. Earlier operating systems did have this requirement in order to avoid corruption of your flash memory. However, the operating systems have evolved with time, and the “Safely [...] (more…)

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USB Disk Manager: Control Level Of Access & Viruses For Flash Drives

Plugging in random USB flash drives into our computers is one of the primary sources of viruses and spamware. What happens is that when a USB is inserted into an infected computer, the virus automatically transfers itself into the target machine. When you plug the same USB flash drive into another computer, the virus gets [...] (more…)

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Use Your iPad As A Mass Storage Device With USB Flash Drive

An iPad comes with a lot of storage space, and if you can’t really think of enough songs to fill up 32GB, then you have to admit, it can be pretty useful being able to use an iPad as a mass storage device. USB Flash Drive is an app which will let you do just [...] (more…)

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USBFlashSpeed – Test USB Flash Drive Read & Write Speed With Graph Plotting

It can be quite difficult to determine the optimum read & write speed of your flash drive. While sometimes the transfer rate may appear to be as much as 25MB, at other instances it doesn’t seem to give that high read and write speed. In such a case, it can be worth checking out the [...] (more…)

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Mount Windows Phone 7 As USB Disk Drive With WP7 USB Storage Enabler

Ever wondered if you could mount your Windows Phone 7 handset as a USB disk to quickly throw some data in? While there is no official way to do it the way you can in Android, XDA-Developers forum member MarcHoover has made this all possible via a tool that is now invaluable considering the convenience [...] (more…)

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Lock Folders And Disable USB Port For Flash Drive With BuduLock

Data security is a big concern if you use a shared or public computer. Putting password and locking folders containing important data is a solution. Though there are enormous tools which provide such facility, yet we can’t stop reviewing some new tool which we come across.  BuduLock is a simple tool which enables you to [...] (more…)

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Copy Data From PC To USB Or External Hard Drive Silently

USB Grabber is an open source utility that can grab data from a PC to a USB drive without any permissions being asked or notifications being raised. This tool is more like a data grabber rather than a backup tool, since it runs silently in the background and grabs data as soon as the USB [...] (more…)

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Protect Files On Your USB From Accidental Deletion & Modification

USB flash drives are one of the most popular data transfer media these days, and while their massive use brings great ease of use, it also puts data at the risk of loss, corruption, theft and such other hazards. However, to those who have experienced it, nothing appears more devastating and unfortunate than to have [...] (more…)

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Automatic Backup Software For USB Drive [Windows]

BackUpAnyWhere is a free, portable tool that allows easy and automated backups of USB flash drives to a predefined directory on your PC. Other than backing up the drive, the software also supports syncing the contents between the flash drive and the HDD. Once configured, the program can perform all these functions in an automated [...] (more…)

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iBin – Portable Recycle Bin Can Recover Files From USB Flash Drive

iBin is a portable recycle bin for USB Flash Drives developed with AutoHotKey. The default Recycle Bin feature build into Windows is only useful for storing and recovering deleted files from the local hard disk. When you delete a file from the USB drive, it will be deleted from the device file system as well [...] (more…)

FlashRecall – Don’t Forget Plugged In USB Flash Drive

Did you ever forget the USB flash drive behind while leaving the computer in hurry? Since I use the laptop this hasn’t occurred to me yet but I have seen many corporate users in such situations. Once you plug-in the USB Drive, finish your work and leave, there are high chances that you will forget [...] (more…)

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How To Encrypt Your Data Easily

Everyone has some private data that they don’t want other to see. It may be a document consisting of all your login passwords, your bank account information that you want to keep out of  your family or some stalker’s sight. In case you are wondering how to encrypt the files/folders/entire hard drive and keep it [...] (more…)