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Moggie,
Since you are now successfully using OneDrive, you have probably lost interest in USB memory sticks.
Here goes anyway,
- Your computer has normal, full-sized USB connectors - USB-A connectors
- Your tablet has a MicroUSB connector
- You can buy USB memory sticks that have a USB-A connector on one side and a MicroUSB connector on the other. I have never tried one. You can see photos of one at SanDisk Ultra 64GB Dual USB Flash Drive USB M3.0 up to 150 MB/s: Amazon.co.uk: Computers & Accessories
- You can buy normal USB memory sticks that fit your computer and you can buy USB-A to MicroUSB adapters to fit it to your tablet. This is what I do.
- Doing it with adapters means I can use the appropriate adapter with any USB device which I want to connect to my tablet / phone including USB memory sticks, powerbanks, external wifi keyboard & mouse.
- Doing it with adapters also means that I can cope with getting a new tablet/phone later on that has USB-C connections instead of MicroUSB ones. I can carry on using my devices and only relegate the old adapters to the will-come-in-handy-again-one-day box.
normal USB memory stick and a MicroUSB adapter [and with a second one up on end so you can see it better]
normal USB memory stick with attached MicroUSB adapter ready for use with my tablet/phone
Do note that you will soon want to have an external hard drive for your backups.
- Now you have mastered OneDrive you might be content to use that as a backup for all your own files
- You will also want to make 'system images' on an external hard drive as a backup of your Windows hard drive
- System images include all the drive's bootup properties so if your hard drive failed you could replace the duff hard drive, restore the latest system image, copy back the latest copies of all your own files from OneDrive and then you would be back to square one with a functioning computer as if the failure had never happened.
- If your tablet is a Windows one then you can make system images for that as well. I don't know about Android tablets [I bought a tablet that had both Android & Windows and I immediately removed Android so I would know the beast I was dealing with.]
Denis