External Drive: How Do I Format My USB or Firewire Hard Drive? | Sleuth Q&A
video goes over how to format a USB or Firewire external hard drive in windows. This is actually a simple task. Many people find it useful to format their USB or Firewire external hard drive so they can start fresh on dumping either computer backup data or perhaps simply just to start a different organization method. Today’s question came from a user who had a hard drive become deeply infected and it needed a format – so he connected his external hard drive to a USB or Firewire enclosure …
If the memory stick is badly infected, wouldn’t it be smart to disable autorun before putting it in the usb port?
True. check your channel page for my other comment
True, primary reason I did it that way was because quite often people have so dern many things plugged into their computer the external drive doesn’t get assigned a drive letter
– figured this way would cover all bases. Good to see you! How have things been? Get any other sweet things off of swagbucks yet?
It would be helpful to your audience to show the easy way of doing it as well. And if you know how there is a way to do it from command prompt as well. Both are a bit easier