With Apple's licensing of Microsoft's exFAT file system, it seems like we finally have a good option for OS X and Windows disk swapping. Dave Girard spent some time investigating the appeal, the ...

NEW YORK, Jan. 6, 2026 /PRNewswire/ -- EaseUS, a global leader in partition management and disk optimization software, announced the upcoming release of EaseUS Partition Master 20.0, redefining what ...

After our Windows encryption showdown, reader Jerod passed along this tip to make sure your encrypted volumes, especially external hard drives, in Windows play nicely with other platforms like OS ...

When formatting 32GB or more of disk space with the standard function of Windows 10, you cannot select FAT32 format. With the open source format software ' Rufus ', it is possible to format USB memory ...

NTFS, an acronym that stands for New Technology File System, is a file system first introduced by Microsoft in 1993 with the release of Windows NT 3.1. The Windows Server line of operating systems ...

Using the FAT or exFAT file systems? You'll have to convert your drives to NTFS if you want to keep syncing them with Microsoft's OneDrive cloud storage service. I’m the deputy managing editor of the ...

Using an external drive between Mac and Windows computers can be a hassle, since you constantly have to reformat it to fit which computer you're using it on. Instead of reformatting it all the time, ...

I put my World of Warcraft on an external ExFat formatted drive. I have created a Symbolic Link to it at its original location on the C: drive, which happens to be NTFS. Is this safe? What if Windows ...

Why is your USB drive so slow? If your drive is formatted in FAT32 or exFAT (the latter of which can handle larger capacity drives), you have your answer. USB drive vendors tend to format their drives ...

Microsoft has been licensing its exFAT flash file format for licensing for a while now. In case you forgot, on December 10, the company reminded folks that exFAT is available for licensing. exFAT, or ...