Wednesday, June 17, 2009

Format USB drive with NTFS

Advantages:
Enabling NTFS in removable storage devices allows us to add allow and deny permissions on individual files and folders for specific Windows users; that?s the function not available in FAT file system. NTFS also allows files to be encrypted by using Windows XP?s built-in encryption.

How to enable USB drive with NTFS?
1. You need to connect your USB device to your computer, that?s for sure. Right-click on My Computer from the desktop and choose Manage.
2. Click on ?Device Manager? and expand out ?Disk Drives?. There are maybe couple of drives depending on how many USB drive & hard drive connected to your PC.
3. Right click on USB drive and select ?properties?. After that, click on the ?Policies? tab and choose ?Optimize for performance? radio button. Finally click OK and you are done!
4. If you right-click on USB drive and select ?Format..? you will see NTFS is now available.

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