how do one convert an existing FAT32 flash drive to NTFS. i know where to buy one but is there any software to convert fat32 to ntfs on a flash drive.
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believe it or not but i had portable app toolbar on my firefox. dont kno how it got there but it happened the first tym i went to P apps website with my firefox browser.
was trying to install Ubuntu than it disapeared. tried looking for it online only to find out it doesn't exist. i'd like to have it back on my browser. all i do is click and i get RSS, new programs & updates and stuff. i tried the RSS feed but it dint work no toolbars.
RK.
believe it or not but i had portable app toolbar on my firefox. dont kno how it got there but it happened the first tym i went to P apps website with my firefox browser.
was trying to install Ubuntu than it disapeared. tried looking for it online only to find out it doesn't exist. i'd like to have it back on my browser. all i do is click and i get RSS, new programs & updates and stuff. i tried the RSS feed but it dint work no toolbars.
RK.
Just do it through the Command Prompt, it's the same as doing it to a local drive I'm quite sure, it will just schedule the formatting for time on reboot. First check that you wanna do that, in this same category, look for a post called Vista + NTFS or sumthing like that.
P.S. Were you reading the post on Making a PortableApps.com Toolbar? The 'toolbar' you probably saw was the RSS feeds in the bookmarks toolbar.
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Try the following on the commandline and then follow the directions.
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Just go to "My Computer" folder, then, right click on the flash drive and choose format (that will also wipe out all data in the hard drive). Than choose all settings as you want (set up the partition type to be NTFS when formatted instead of FAT or FAT32).
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I tried to use the right-click format but the only available option was FAT32. I then used the command line utility and it worked great!
convert f: /fs:ntfs
i tried that first but it dint give me an option to do it neither on xp home nor xp pro.
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NTFS will wear out a USB Flash Drive faster then would a FAT/FAT32 FS, Look into Journaling under NTFS, kinda like a logfile for the FS always updating the FS hense all the read/writes of the drive. I already went through 1 2GB usb flash drive that I had for a long time with NTFS.
Just my .02 cents
The only reason I formatted my 8gb drive to NTFS was to get around the 4gb file size limit of FAT32. My virtualbox XP machine is about 5.8gb now...
In order to be able to format the USB drive to NTFS, you'll need to first dig the device up in the device manager, right-click...Properties...Policies tab... , then change from "optimize for quick removal" to "optimize for performance". You'll then be able to format to NTFS from explorer. Only Caveat...You WILL need to then use the "Safely Remove Hardware" from the system tray.
Windows' format tool is corrupted, use the HP USB Format Tool. Works great, no command line :wink:.
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This will, however, cause a permissions issue if you then try to use the drive on a Windows Vista machine (which is fussy with NTFS-formatted flash drives... among about 1,000 other things). You need to use the CONVERT /NoSecurity method on the drive.
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