When I right-clicked "My Computer" a new SSD wasn't showing up. Went & read a few articles about NTFS, FAT32 and drive letters... Don't really feel I learned much however, long story short I decided to test a program called "Fat32 Format" which was able to find my SSD & format it. Then I was...
Supposedly one of their IT guys did it on accident. In Oct 2015, if you look for the article, Microsoft apologized for forcing the upgrade. Exact quote was 'a mistake' they said.
Doing a search for the following keywords "oct 2015 a mistake microsoft forced" which aught to bring up a good...
10 Tools to Make a Bootable USB from an ISO File
Above is a list of 10 tools to make bootable USB flash drives. Found the list when I was trying to do it for my new build. First on the list was Rufus. Tried it & didn't get it to work. Next was RMPrepUSB but it looked too complicated decided...
When I recieved my external hard drive I formatted it in NTFS but it was only recognized by win7 but not OSX or winxp. So I reformatted it to Fat32 & now its recognized by all my computers.