How to Use Pen Drive or Usb Flash Drive drive with NTFS

By default windows format pen drive with fat file system
which has it’s own limitation. One big issue with fat file system is
you cannot store a file larger than 4GB. But nowadays we have to transfer file
more than 4GB such as DVD or dual layer DVD image. But NTFS file system is more
reliable & don’t have this kind of limitations. So you can tranfer a file
which is more than 4GB big.

Warning : Backup all data from your pen drive before following this procedure.

Plug in your pen drive. Click start & Right click on My Computer.
Select Properties > Hardware > Device Manager.

Expand Disk Drives & Click on your Pen Drive Name. ( In my case it’s : Jetflash )
Now Right click on your pen drive name & select Properties.
Go to Polocies Tab & Select Optimize for Performance.

Settings

Click OK. Close device Manager.

Now open My Computer & Select Your Pen Drive ( ie Removable Disk ).
Right click on it & select Format. Click on File system box.
& Voila! You see the NTFS option.

Now select NTFS & fromat your pen drive.

Another Method :

You can also convert your pen drive’s fat file system to ntfs as you use to convert
fat partion to nfts.

Open command prompt. In the command prompt window, type :

convert drive_letter: /fs:ntfs

In my case my pen drive’s letter is N so it will be :

convert N: /fs:ntfs

Note : You can’t use this pen drive with under win 9x & me.
To use this pen drive under 9x & me format it using fat file system.

I’ve used Windows Xp With Sp3 as my Os.
Plz test on on Other os like vista & tell me if it works.
Also do inform me after formatting the pen drive is it usable under
linux .( I think it will work though not sure )