Through the looking glass: The compact disc's 43-year journey, from technical experiment to a worldwide standard, tells the story of how global collaboration and bold engineering can reshape entire ...

“I inserted a flash drive into my computer only to come across an error such as ‘you need to format the disk before using it.’ I am told this happens due to the ...

These days, the vast majority of portable media users are storing their files on some kind of Microsoft-developed file system. Back in the 1980s and 1990s, though, things were different. You ...

Before we go ahead and start moving our virtual machines, you need to ensure that your machines are shut down. Otherwise, there is a high chance that the newly created virtual machine will either be ...

If you've ever formatted a disk using Windows, you've probably noticed that the UI and design of the Format tool haven't changed in a while. In fact, it's basically the same as it was in 1994 - which ...

It turns out that a small but useful menu inside your modern Windows PC was designed and built in one day in 1994. It was meant to be a temporary stopgap until something better was created to replace ...

Just imagine that you're a software developer and you've got an enormous list of tasks to do. One of them happens to be creating an interface for the formatting of storage drives, so you'd probably ...