Format USB drive

[Guest Ed Mc]

I have a Fat32 disk I want to place into a USB enclosure and

clone my XP disk. Can I format the enclosed disk to ntfs using disk

management? I've researched a little but I want to be very sure,

hence, I'm asking here. TIA.

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[Guest Malke]

Re: Format USB drive

 

Ed Mc wrote:

> I have a Fat32 disk I want to place into a USB enclosure and

> clone my XP disk. Can I format the enclosed disk to ntfs using disk

> management? I've researched a little but I want to be very sure,

> hence, I'm asking here. TIA.

 

Yes, but you don't need to if you're going to clone the drive. Whatever file

system the clone master uses is what you'll get on the cloned drive after

the process is complete. I use Acronis True Image for this sort of work and

it has no problem dealing with drives in USB enclosures.

 

Malke

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