If you have to use a flash drive on both Macs and Windows PCs, make sure both systems can read it. Here's how to format the drive correctly.

USB drives, external HDDs, and memory cards—remains the go-to for transferring and backing up data. But these devices are also among the easies ...

If your USB flash drive is not copying files, format your file type to NTFS. However, you may also need to gain administrator permission to fix the issue.