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Format Flash Drive as NTFS

Asked by mgross333 in Windows XP Operating System, Hard Drives & Storage

My OS is Windows XP SP2. Upgrading to SP3 is NOT an option to solve this problem.

Please reply on how to QUICKLY AND EASILY format a new FAT-32 flash drive/usb stick to NTFS using FDISK or something that can be downloaded for free. You MUST spell out the details. EXAMPLE. You MUST provide the EXACT Fdisk command (assuming some drive letter for the flash drive) or similar for other partition tool . For any partition tool, it must be FREE (trial version is OK) and you need to provide the link.

Also for fdisk (and I believe ALL partition tools) THAT IS NOT ENOUGH. Then after booting to Windows XP more action is needed to FINALLY get a empty NTFS formatted device. Please describe the addtional action (such as Right click the drive in My Computer and select Format or whatever the answer is).

PROBLEM: If I try to use the Windows XP format tool THE ONLY OPTION GIVEN IS FAT-32 WHICH IS RIDICULOUS. Like MS could not write the code to do something so trivial but thay have not.

PROBLEM: I want to copy a 4GB file to the 8 GB flash drive and fat-32 does not support 4 gb or larger files and all new flash drives (and external HDs) are FAT-32.  Which is exactly why MS should have provided this in the age of video filles which are often more than 4 GB in size.

If Vista has such a tool, great, but I have XP.

Mike
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