How to format a drive with the NTFS file system
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Select ‘Hardware’ and open ‘Device Manager’.
You can see the ‘Disk Drives’ tab here. Expand it to display all the drives.
Select your USB flash drive and double click to open ‘Properties’.
Go to ‘Policies’. The selected default option will be ‘Optimize for Quick removal’, change it to ‘Optimize for Performance’ and click ‘OK’.
Now close the window and open ‘My computer’. Right click on the USB flash drive and select ‘Format’.
Select ‘NTFS file system’ and start formatting.
Now your USB drive will be formatted with the NTFS format.
With NTFS formatting, your files will be more secure and you can also enjoy more space for your files and folders.
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The most recent variants of Microsoft’s operating systems support NTFS, an advanced file system. Here’s a way to format your USB flash drive to the NTFS file system when it’s plugged into a PC running Windows XP. By doing so you’ll enjoy better encryption and a boost in performance of your USB flash drive.
Microsoft introduced NTFS, an advanced file system, with the Windows NT operating system and continued using it in Windows 2000, XP and Vista. NTFS is a standard file system that supports high performance, a self healing mechanism and file encryption. It also offers file compression and auditing, thereby providing larger volumes of storage than the older FAT file systems.
If you format a USB flash drive with the NTFS file system, it will increase the storage space by compressing the files. NTFS allows you to encrypt data on files and folders with the help of Windows XP’s integrated file encryption feature. The NTFS file system also allows you to grant and deny permission for individual files and folders. You can also set a disk quota.
You can’t format USB flash drives with the NTFS file system in Windows XP by default. But with a little tweaking, you can and here’s how. Before you follow these steps, make sure your important data is removed from the drive as the data will be permanently lost during formatting.
Insert the USB flash drive into the USB port. Right click on ‘My computer’ and then click ‘Properties’.
Select ‘Hardware’ and open ‘Device Manager’.
You can see the ‘Disk Drives’ tab here. Expand it to display all the drives.
Select your USB flash drive and double click to open ‘Properties’.
Go to ‘Policies’. The selected default option will be ‘Optimize for Quick removal’, change it to ‘Optimize for Performance’ and click ‘OK’.
Now close the window and open ‘My computer’. Right click on the USB flash drive and select ‘Format’.
The Format box will now have the option to format with the NTFS file system or FAT and FAT32 systems. (The options would have been limited to FAT and FAT32 if the steps above had not been taken).
Select ‘NTFS file system’ and start formatting.
Now your USB drive will be formatted with the NTFS format.
With NTFS formatting, your files will be more secure and you can also enjoy more space for your files and folders.
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