When using an SD card or USB memory in Windows, you will often see the 'format' screen to initialize the data. Former Microsoft employee David Plummer tells the story behind the creation of this ...

Former Microsoft coder Dave Plummer has revealed the story behind the Windows Format drive dialogue box, which is now 30 years old. This seemingly innocuous box has remained stubbornly unchanged for ...

Windows 11 debuted in 2021, and despite the clear and concise name, it was not the 11th version of Microsoft's operating system. The Windows lineage stretches back over about 20 releases (depending on ...

The Windows format function limits the volume size that can be created with FAT32 to a maximum of 32GB. A new change has been added to the test build of Windows that increases the volume size that can ...

Are you unable to format a USB drive to the FAT32 system on your Windows 11/10 computerm? Some users have reported that Windows does not let them format their USB drives to FAT32. However, many users ...

It turns out that a small but useful menu inside your modern Windows PC was designed and built in one day in 1994. It was meant to be a temporary stopgap until something better was created to replace ...

You can format an external drive quickly and easily in Windows, without the need of any third-party tools. But before you format your USB drive, you need to consider which file system to use. File ...

Before we begin, it’s important to know that formatting a drive will erase everything on it, so you’ll want to make sure that you back up or save anything that you don’t want to lose. After you’ve ...