USB Key Drive Supports NTFS

[cbehnken]

Did you know you can format a USB drive NTFS and use NTFS file compression? Saved 100 MB on my 256 MB drive.

Hope this isn't a repost or in wrong forum

 

[The J]

I'll have to try that. Mine is a 128MB Lexar drive and it's in FAT.

 

[cbehnken]

yeah use the convert utility or back it up and re-format

 

[The J]

Thanks, I just ran the convert command. It was originally FAT, so NTFS should make a difference in space used.

 

[KenSr]

How do you convert it?
I did a format and the only options were for FAT or FAT32.

 

[Peter]

The physical drive never cares what you do with its storage sectors. Partition types and file system models happen several layers further above in the driver stack.
So if your OS lets you put an NTFS onto a removable storage device, you're set. NT/2K/XP let you do that - after you've used the Storage Manager to create a HDD style partition on it, not from the "format floppy" dialog.

It's just not as interchangeable with other systems as FAT is.

 

[The J]

Originally posted by: KenSr
How do you convert it?
I did a format and the only options were for FAT or FAT32.

Click Start, then Run..., type in cmd and hit Enter.

type in: convert [drive letter]: /FS:ntfs
hit Enter.

 

[imported_Sasha]

Originally posted by: Peter
The physical drive never cares what you do with its storage sectors. Partition types and file system models happen several layers further above in the driver stack.
So if your OS lets you put an NTFS onto a removable storage device, you're set. NT/2K/XP let you do that - after you've used the Storage Manager to create a HDD style partition on it, not from the "format floppy" dialog.

It's just not as interchangeable with other systems as FAT is.

Can you elaborate on the 'several layers' between the driver and the partition table? I take several to mean more than two, otherwise it would be one or a couple.