USB Flash Drive Storage Device Amna Hassan Sumait

USB Flash Drive Storage Device Amna Hassan Sumait 2015 -2016 H 00296709

What is it ? It’s a plug and play portable storage device, and it’s also a removable device. It’s small and have a lightweight you can carry it where ever you want. Also known as key drive , thumb drive.

How to use it ? 1 - Find a USB port in your laptop or in any desktop PC. 2 - Enter the USB Flash into the USB port.

3 - You will see a message in the bottom in your desktop that tells the USB drive have been installed.

Copying files to the USB 4 - To copy a file into the USB you have to select the file that you want to copy to your USB and paste it. 5 - Also you can drag and drop the files into your USB.

Copy And Past Drag and Drop

6 - Wait until the transfer finish this will take a few minutes depending on the files that you copying.

How to delete files from the USB Simply Select the file that you want to delete then right-Click and choose Delete.

Formatting and clearing viruses ? Viruses are harmful programs that can damage the computer through many ways such as flash drives, hard drives, and also from online websites.

How to remove the viruses 1 - Run a virus scan on the USB flash drive.

2 - Copy or backup the files that you want to be saved.

3 -Format the flash drive. 1 - ( Click start – Type cmd – Press enter) 2 - As shown below type ( format and the drive letter).

4 - After you finish formatting copy and past the files that you copied it before to your USB flash drive.

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