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.

We cover how you should format your USB drive before using it as a storage device, and which format to use - APFS, exFAT or Mac OS Extended (Journaled).

Tech Computing 10 awesome ways to use a USB flash drive Find out how versatile your thumbdrive is with these 10 little-known uses and tricks.

Last, but not least, Windows 8 will format the USB flash drive that you use to create the recovery drive. Therefore, make sure you backup all your data before beginning this process.