Flash+Drive+Manager

Flash Drive Manager USB flash drives are incredible devices. On that one little stick, you can hold as much information as a full-fledged hard drive could hold less than five years ago! However, are you using it to its full capacity? By using a small (and free!) utility from Microsoft, you can vastly expand the flexibility of your little USB drive. This program is called Flash Drive Manager. To get your copy of Flash Drive Manager, head right here to download it to your computer:- []

Once you have it downloaded, click on the UFDSetupWizard.Msi file. Once you do that though, you most probably be greeted with a warning screen:

But, since you downloaded it from Microsoft itself, there should be no problems in accepting the software, so go ahead and click the Run button.

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Thereafter, you will be in the opening screen of the utility. Across the top, you will see a number of tabs, which are numbered below from one to six for your convenience. 1.) Overview This is the page you are on now. You can navigate to the other pages by either clicking on the relevant tab or the link with the green arrow that is underscored in blue. However, please take note of the warning at the right, regarding having the USB drive plugged in before commencing any actions. 2.) Copy Files This enables you to easily copy files to the USB drive. Note:- It is important that you first highlight the USB drive you are using in the left hand box (you can use the Manager to handle multiple USB drives if you wish). Next, click on Explore in the bottom right hand corner. That will open a typical Explorer screen for you. Highlight the files you want to copy over in the usual way and they will immediately be copied. (There is no need to click anything else, because it is almost instantaneous). Pressing the Delete button will do exactly what it says, but be careful. Make sure you check the request for confirmation screen carefully so you do not wipe out everything on the drive! 3.) Back Up/Restore The Flash Drive Manager gives you the ability to back up whatever you have on your USB drive to an image file on your hard drive for security purposes The process is quite simple.

Check the “Back up files from a Flash Drive to my computer” option ,ensure the right flash drive is highlighted in the left hand box and then press Backup. That is all there is to it! (By default, it will save your data to a folder in your My Documents folder, but you can change that by using the Settings tab. The process is the reverse for restoring an image to the flash drive.

Select “Restore files,” select the Image file on the hard disk and then click Restore. If you want to clear all the files existing on the flash drive first, just click the relevant box. Note:- The files will be restored to a folder created on the flash drive by the Manager program, but you can move them wherever you want afterward, just as you would do with any files. 4.) Properties This will enable you to do some tidying up and make a few changes. Select the right USB drive (if you have more than one) and click on Edit You can: - a.) Change the label of the USB drive. b.) Set the USB drive to AutoRun (Which means it will run automatically as soon as you plug it in to the computer, just like most CDs and DVDs do). c.) Include runtime components (Basically, if your computer doesn’t have the necessary files to enable AutoRun, this will make them available). Do not bother with this one unless you have a for the AutoRun option Complete the relevant field and click Save to process them. 5.) Manage Library

This enables you to work with the various drive images you have on your hard drive, but also to make some modifications to the USB drive, similar to what you have done with the Properties But, you have the addition of the Delete tab (Use with caution), and Explore to locate the files to work with on your hard drive. 6.) Settings There are a number of things you can do here:-

You can :- a.) Include runtime components: Already discussed this under Properties. b.) Free disk space: Enables you to say the smallest amount of free space you want to use for the backup. Note:- If you have not got enough, the backup will not run. c.) USB backup library location: If you do not want to save the backup in the default location (My Documents), you can change it here.

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