I just bought a cheapo 2gb USB flash drive from Staples. On plugging it in, it has two partitions, one loaded with autoexecing windows crapware, the other with other malarky. The crapware partition is ...

I've read here and there that to get better performance out of SSDs, one method is to align its partitions with diskpar(t). But does this work for all flash-based media? I tried to realign a partition ...

From the outside, the Phantom Drive, created by Rootkit Labs, appears like a boring old USB. It has that classic, cheap plastic-feeling look to it that would never make you second-guess its intention; ...

Based in rural Minnesota, Brian Burgess worked in IT for 10 years before finding his passion for writing about consumer technology. Brian earned his degree in computer and network technology in 2000.