Re: How to format thumb drive as NTFS?
- From: "Nepatsfan" <nepatsfan@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Mon, 22 Sep 2008 19:24:04 -0400
"Paul Randall" <paulr90@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Hi,
I'm running WXP SP2 on a two-year old Compaq laptop. A month ago, I formatted
three 2-GB thumb drives, one in Fat16, one in Fat32, and one in NTFS format,
but I think I may have done this on another computer, perhaps with a Vista OS.
I can write to and read from all three of these thumb drives on this laptop.
If I right click on any of these three thumb drives in My Computer and choose
Format, I get only two choices: Fat 16 and Fat 32 for 2GB thumb drives and
only the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb drives. Seems like I should at least be
able to do a NTFS reformat of the thumb drive that is currently NTFS.
I've seen other threads that talk about no need for NTFS format on thumb
drives unless files greater than 2 GB are involved, but there is also the
problem that Fat 32 does not store Unicode file names properly, and this is
the feature I need.
Right now, I only have this laptop available. So how can I format a thumb
drive as NTFS on a WXP SP2 system?
-Paul Randall
See if the information in this article helps.
How do I format a USB Flash Drive to NTFS file system?
http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm
Good luck
Nepatsfan
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