Using USB Drive for data storage

If permitted by your business, you may copy data from your USB drive onto the cloud hosted business desktop through your thin client device. Place the USB drive into one of the open USB ports, and it will appear, in a few seconds, as another drive in your Windows Explorer.

If the USB drive does not appear inside Windows Explorer, and USB drives are allowed by your business/department, the drive may not be properly formatted for Windows. The drive will need to be reformatted.

Important: Formatting a USB drive, will erase all data on the drive. Please backup any data you may have prior to performing the formatting process.

Formatting USB drive with Mac OS X

• Insert the USB drive into a Mac
• Go to the Applications folder, select Utilities and launch Disk Utility program
• Click on the icon of the USB drive in the left column of the Disk Utility program
• Click the Erase button on the lower right corner of the screen
• Select MSDOS (FAT 32) from the Format drop-down menu
• Click the Erase button
• Click Erase button again to confirm
• Wait for the progress bar to finish
• Quit the Disk Utility program
• You may now save data to the USB drive and it will be visible when placed into a thin client device

Formatting USB drive with Windows

• Insert the USB drive into a PC
• Launch Windows Explorer
• In the left column, expand the Computer category
• Right click on the USB drive
• Select Format...
• in the File system drop-down menu, select FAT32
• Click Start button
• Click OK to confirm
• Click OK in the Format Complete windows
• Click Close
• You may now save data to the USB drive and it will be visible when placed into a thin client device