How to format thumb drive as NTFS?

[Guest Paul Randall]

Hi,

I'm running WXP SP2 on a two-year old Compaq laptop. A month ago, I

formatted three 2-GB thumb drives, one in Fat16, one in Fat32, and one in

NTFS format, but I think I may have done this on another computer, perhaps

with a Vista OS. I can write to and read from all three of these thumb

drives on this laptop. If I right click on any of these three thumb drives

in My Computer and choose Format, I get only two choices: Fat 16 and Fat 32

for 2GB thumb drives and only the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb drives.

Seems like I should at least be able to do a NTFS reformat of the thumb

drive that is currently NTFS.

 

I've seen other threads that talk about no need for NTFS format on thumb

drives unless files greater than 2 GB are involved, but there is also the

problem that Fat 32 does not store Unicode file names properly, and this is

the feature I need.

 

Right now, I only have this laptop available. So how can I format a thumb

drive as NTFS on a WXP SP2 system?

 

-Paul Randall

[Guest Nepatsfan]

Re: How to format thumb drive as NTFS?

 

"Paul Randall" <paulr90@aol.com> wrote in message

news:ut6GtjQHJHA.4884@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Hi,

> I'm running WXP SP2 on a two-year old Compaq laptop. A month ago, I formatted

> three 2-GB thumb drives, one in Fat16, one in Fat32, and one in NTFS format,

> but I think I may have done this on another computer, perhaps with a Vista OS.

> I can write to and read from all three of these thumb drives on this laptop.

> If I right click on any of these three thumb drives in My Computer and choose

> Format, I get only two choices: Fat 16 and Fat 32 for 2GB thumb drives and

> only the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb drives. Seems like I should at least be

> able to do a NTFS reformat of the thumb drive that is currently NTFS.

>

> I've seen other threads that talk about no need for NTFS format on thumb

> drives unless files greater than 2 GB are involved, but there is also the

> problem that Fat 32 does not store Unicode file names properly, and this is

> the feature I need.

>

> Right now, I only have this laptop available. So how can I format a thumb

> drive as NTFS on a WXP SP2 system?

>

> -Paul Randall

>

 

See if the information in this article helps.

 

How do I format a USB Flash Drive to NTFS file system?

http://www.ntfs.com/quest22.htm

 

Good luck

 

Nepatsfan

[Guest olfart]

Re: How to format thumb drive as NTFS?

 

 

"Paul Randall" <paulr90@aol.com> wrote in message

news:ut6GtjQHJHA.4884@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> Hi,

> I'm running WXP SP2 on a two-year old Compaq laptop. A month ago, I

> formatted three 2-GB thumb drives, one in Fat16, one in Fat32, and one in

> NTFS format, but I think I may have done this on another computer, perhaps

> with a Vista OS. I can write to and read from all three of these thumb

> drives on this laptop. If I right click on any of these three thumb

> drives in My Computer and choose Format, I get only two choices: Fat 16

> and Fat 32 for 2GB thumb drives and only the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb

> drives. Seems like I should at least be able to do a NTFS reformat of the

> thumb drive that is currently NTFS.

>

> I've seen other threads that talk about no need for NTFS format on thumb

> drives unless files greater than 2 GB are involved, but there is also the

> problem that Fat 32 does not store Unicode file names properly, and this

> is the feature I need.

>

> Right now, I only have this laptop available. So how can I format a thumb

> drive as NTFS on a WXP SP2 system?

>

> -Paul Randall

>

D/L the HP USB flash drive format tool from

http://files.extremeoverclocking.com/file.php?f=197

You can also make the flash drive bootable

[Guest JF]

Re: How to format thumb drive as NTFS?

 

*Bonjour Paul Randall * !

<news:ut6GtjQHJHA.4884@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>

> I get only two choices: Fat 16 and Fat 32

> for 2GB thumb drives and only the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb drives. Seems

> like I should at least be able to do a NTFS reformat of the thumb drive that

> is currently NTFS.

 

Start>Run>cmd /k convert /?

 

--

Regards, Jean-François

[Guest Paul Randall]

Re: How to format thumb drive as NTFS?

 

 

"JF" <JF@-> wrote in message news:OAyymiVHJHA.3932@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl...

> *Bonjour Paul Randall * !

> <news:ut6GtjQHJHA.4884@TK2MSFTNGP03.phx.gbl>

>

>> I get only two choices: Fat 16 and Fat 32 for 2GB thumb drives and only

>> the Fat 32 choice for 4 GB thumb drives. Seems like I should at least be

>> able to do a NTFS reformat of the thumb drive that is currently NTFS.

>

> Start>Run>cmd /k convert /?

 

Thank you Nepatsfan, olfart, and Jean-François.

I tried all three methods, on three new unused 4GB thumb drives.

All three methods worked.

Thanks to olfart, I now have a slightly newer version of the HP USB flash

drive format tool too.

 

-Paul Randall