Guest plugginaway Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 Bought 8G flash drive. FAT32. it writes, but slowly. tried to format as NTFS, no go. tried to convert to ntfs. error "ntfs boot sector unwriteable" ??? any hints? thanx
Guest Bill in Co. Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 Re: flash drive LEAVE it as FAT32. There is no point in using NTFS for a flash drive. (It is much more "flexible" this way for applications (by using FAT). plugginaway wrote: > Bought 8G flash drive. FAT32. it writes, but slowly. > > tried to format as NTFS, no go. > > tried to convert to ntfs. error "ntfs boot sector unwriteable" > > > ??? any hints? > > thanx
Guest Doug W. Posted September 12, 2008 Posted September 12, 2008 Re: flash drive I agree with Bill. Also if you have USB 1 it will be slow, if you have USB 2 probably too many apps using it at the same time. - Doug W. - "Bill in Co." <not_really_here@earthlink.net> wrote in message news:%23qDj4USFJHA.4104@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl... > LEAVE it as FAT32. There is no point in using NTFS for a > flash drive. (It is much more "flexible" this way for > applications (by using FAT). > > plugginaway wrote: >> Bought 8G flash drive. FAT32. it writes, but slowly. >> >> tried to format as NTFS, no go. >> >> tried to convert to ntfs. error "ntfs boot sector >> unwriteable" >> >> >> ??? any hints? >> >> thanx > >
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