Enabling write protection on a USB drive is one excellent way to prevent accidental changes and deletions of files, the other being password-protecting your USB drive. In most cases, the write ...

Data stored on USB devices can sometimes be lost due to errors. If you find your files disappeared, don’t fret: it is possible to recover deleted files from a USB drive.

To select your USB flash drive, type select disk x, where x is the number of your disk in the list above. In our case we typed select disk 2 in order to select our 32GB USB flash drive.

Take your applications anywhere Portable applications are programs that can run from a USB drive—you can unplug the drive, move it to a different PC, and take all of your favorite apps with you.

Once the Command Prompt displays all the storage drives, find your USB drive by checking its storage capacity and note its disk number. Now, type "select disk X," replacing X with the disk number ...