While USB flash drives have largely fallen out of vogue, they can be handy as a backup when cloud backups or other solutions fail to save Windows.

External hard drives can be moved between systems, reformatted at will, and repurposed without risking the data or stability of a primary computer.

USB flash drives are handy devices to have because of their usefulness. One obvious use case for a flash drive is, of course, storage. However, there are many extra ways to use your USB flash drive.