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Identify Processes Hindering Removable Media Ejection With Dev Eject

Many a time, when a user attempts to securely eject a USB drive, an error message pops up on the screen, alerting that the device cannot be ejected as it is in use. In such a case, it can be hard to identify which processes might be using the USB device, and therefore, it becomes [...] (more…)

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Lock/Unlock Your PC Using USB Drive With Password Booster Screen Lock

Password Booster Screen Lock locks your computer screen by using your USB flash drive, hence giving an experience similar to using a physical key on your Windows PC. Once you register a USB flash drive with the application, you can lock computer screen just by unplugging it. The program lets you register and unregister more than [...] (more…)

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Dropout Is Portable Desktop USB And Dropbox Search Tool

Everyone likes to keep their important files on portable drives and in cloud storage directories, such as, a Dropbox folder, so that data can be easily accessed across multiple computers. This means that a lot of data is continuously changing and is not indexed immediately by Windows. Windows Search can miss out files during a search query if the file is not indexed or [...] (more…)

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How To Install Windows 8 From USB Drive

Gone are the days when installing Windows from USB was a complicated job. You don’t need to perform any such tweakings today since there are hundreds of 3rd party tools that can do the job for you. Which better tool to use than the one from Microsoft themselves. Yes, you can use the popular Windows [...] (more…)

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Can’t Format USB Or Any External Drive? Try Using Any Drive Formatter

It happens so often that Windows is not able to format your external hard drive or USB drive if it gets corrupted. In most cases you will get an error saying “Windows cannot complete the format”. To fix this issue you can head over to Disk Management, delete the drive partition and then create a [...] (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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H2testw Checks Damaged USB / SD Card For Read and Write Errors

H2testw is an application which allows user to check USB drives and SD Cards for read and write errors. You can measure the degree of damage which has been done to partially broken/damaged USB drives by filling all the free space. Another usage can be observed when you’ve, unknowingly, got one fake USB on which [...] (more…)

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SpeedOut Checks USB & External HDD Read/Write Speed

Do you want to know the exact rate at which your USB or external hard drive transfers the data? SpeedOut is a simple program that can be used to find the exact data transfer rate and also check which USB or external hard drive provides you better performance. It has a simple interface which shows [...] (more…)

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Linux Live USB Creator & Virtualization Tool

There are already many tools which allow users to create a bootable USB drive with any version of Linux distro; UNetbootin, MultiBoot, and Ubuntu Live USB Creator, being the popular ones and Fedore Live USB Creator, Free USB Installer, and PendriveLinux’s being the lesser popular ones. Linux Live USB Creator is a powerful all-in-one tool [...] (more…)

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Check USB Drive & External Hard Disk For Read/Write Errors

H2testw is a small portable utility developed by a German but comes with an English interface as well. The original purpose of the tool is to check for read/write errors and other errors in a USB drive. It can also be used to check for errors in any external hard disk or network drives. (more…)

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USB Safeguard – USB Flash Drive Encryption Software

We have come across many so-called USB encryption software but none of them really work. The two most popular way of encrypting the external drive or USB Flash drive is to either use TrueCrypt or Windows 7 Bitlocker. Now there is a 3rd newcomer which actually works and is much more easier to use for [...] (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…)