Answer these questions about a file of yours stored on a removable drive or USB flash memory.
a. What type of device is this: hard drive, solid state, flash?
b. What file system does the drive use? If FAT, try to determine if it is FAT 12, FAT 16, or FAT 32.
c. Get information about the file: What dates can you retrieve and what do the dates say?
d. Open the file with an editor or other program. Look at the file but do not change it. Close the file. Now, collect information about the file and report which dates, if any, have changed.
e. Open the file again and make a minor, nondamaging change to it (for example, rotate an image). Save the file without changing the name. Now, collect the information about the file and report which dates, if any, have changed.