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More info?)
I should have asked. Is this an external USB Hard drive or a USB Flash
(Keychain) Drive? Also, you will probably have to reboot after making
that change and then try formatting NTFS.
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Nathan McNulty
darkeagle wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Click Start-Run-Type devmgmt.msc and click OK. Now find the USB Drive
>
>>and click properties for it. Set the policy of the USB Drive to
>>"Optimize for Performance". The default is to optimize for Quick
>>Removal, which restricts you to the FAT filesystem. Now you can format
>>the drive as NTFS in My Computer or Removable Disks in Computer
>
> Management.
>
> I have do this but I don't see the disk in "Rremovabile Disk Computer
> Management".
> If I start formatting from my computer, I obtaing an error message like
> "Unable to complete the formatting".
> Thank you
> "Nathan McNulty" <nospam@msn.com> ha scritto nel messaggio
> news:OYW5yAqeEHA.3376@TK2MSFTNGP10.phx.gbl...
>
>>It is entirely possible, but highly not recommended. There is a very
>>good reason as to why USB Flash drives are left in FAT.
>>
>>Here are just a couple of reasons before I post how to do this. First
>>off, if you try using this drive in a computer that does not exist on
>>the same domain as you, it will not recognize your user SID and you will
>>have to take ownership of the USB drive. You can bypass this by
>>allowing full control to all. You can corrupt the drive easily. One
>>way is by going into suspend mode with the drive in, remove it, write
>>data to it on a different computer, then put it back in and wake the
>>computer. All your data is corrupted. It fails to clear the lazy
>>writes. The other way is even worse. If you simply pull out the USB
>>storage device before it has finished flushing the I/O buffers.
>>
>>The only two good reasons to do this would be encryption and compression.
>>
>>Do this to allow formatting as NTFS:
>>
>>Click Start-Run-Type devmgmt.msc and click OK. Now find the USB Drive
>>and click properties for it. Set the policy of the USB Drive to
>>"Optimize for Performance". The default is to optimize for Quick
>>Removal, which restricts you to the FAT filesystem. Now you can format
>>the drive as NTFS in My Computer or Removable Disks in Computer
>
> Management.
>
>>When you want to remove the drive, you will have to be sure to wait
>>until the drive has prepared itself to be removed. If you remove it
>>earlier, it will cause data loss and potential file corruption.
>>
>>----
>>Nathan McNulty
>>
>>
>>Quaoar wrote:
>>
>>>darkeagle wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Hi,
>>>>There is anyone that know how to use NTFS over a USB2.0 removable
>>>>disk?
>>>>I have tried in various mode without result.
>>>>The only way to use the external drive in Windows XP is formatting it
>>>>with FAT32 file system
>>>>Can anyone help me?
>>>>I have win xp pro sp1a (windows update updated.)
>>>>Thank
>>>
>>>
>>>If this is a flash device, it is not possible AFIK.
>>>
>>>Q
>>>
>>>
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